GARVAN INSTITUTE DIRECTOR WINS PM'S SCIENCE PRIZE
Professor John Shine AO FAA, Executive Director of Sydney’s Garvan
Institute of Medical Research, received the 2010 Prime Minister’s Prize
for Science, the nation’s most highly respected award for scientific
achievement, in Parliament House tonight.
The prize is awarded
for ‘an outstanding specific achievement or series of related
achievements in any area of science advancing human welfare or
benefiting society’.
Professor Shine is world-renowned for a
series of discoveries he made between 1975 and 1985 that furthered our
understanding of how genes are turned into the proteins that do the work
in cells. He also developed sophisticated gene cloning techniques that
helped revolutionise the world of biotechnology.  Read more