Yale Investigator Receives Wiley Prize for Pivotal Discovery.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-15 February 2007-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale Investigator Receives Wiley Prize for Pivotal Discovery(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14022007 New Haven, Conn. -- Arthur Horwich, M.D., a Yale School of Medicine researcher who has dissected the mechanism of a molecular machine that mediates protein folding in the cell, has been awarded the Wiley Prize in the Biomedical Sciences for his groundbreaking research.

Horwich, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics and investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will receive $25,000, which will allow him to continue researching a vital component of the living world, proteins. His work describes the mechanism of action of a machine that carries out the folding of newly-made...