üPROFESSOR GÜNTER BLOBEL
Rockefeller University, New York

Awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work on zip-codes, or postcodes, within a cell. Günter Blobel studies the process by which newly made proteins are transported across the membranes of cell structures called organelles. Because the accurate distribution of proteins to their proper places in the cell is necessary for a cell to function, these findings have an immediate bearing on many diseases, including cystic fibrosis, Alzheimer's disease and AIDS.

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