Announcement


The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine 2008


is awarded one-half jointly to

Ian Wilmut

and

Keith H S Campbell


and the other half to

Shinya Yamanaka


for their recent pivotal innovations in reversing the process of cell differentiation in mammals, a phenomenon which advances our knowledge of developmental biology and holds great promise for the treatment of human diseases and improvements in agriculture practices.





September 9, 2008 Hong Kong