Answers to 1st issue quiz
Bold text indicates Nobel Laureates with some
association with Singapore.
| 1 | Rolf M. Zinkernagel | Discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence |
| 2 | Arthur Kornberg | Discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid |
| 3 | James Watson | Discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material |
| 4 | Sydney Brenner | Discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death' |
| 5 | Stanley B. Prusiner | Discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection |
| 6 | David Baltimore | Discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell |
| 7 | Barbara McClintock | Discovery of mobile genetic elements. |
| 8 | Kary B. Mullis | Invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method. |
| 9 | Christiane Nusslein-Volhard | Discoveries
concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development |
| 10 | Frederick Sanger | Won the Nobel Prize twice in Chemistry |
| 11 | Linus Carl Pauling | Won the Nobel Prize twice - in Chemistry and Peace |
| 12 | Leland Hartwell, Paul Nurse | Discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle |
Dr. David Baltimore is a member of
Singapore’s International Advisory Council for the Biomedical Sciences. Members of
this Council provide advice crucial for the success of Singapore’s Biomedical
Sciences Initiative.
Dr. Sydney Brenner is Chairman of the Biomedical Research Council (BMRC) Board.
The latter also heads a group at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB). That
group was part of the international consortium that sequenced the pufferfish genome in
2002.
Dr. James Watson visited Singapore and gave a lecture at the IMCB in 1997. Sir
Paul Nurse, Prof. Leland Hartwell and Prof. Arthur Kornberg visited more recently (in
2002) as part of the BMRC’s Distinguished Visitor Programme.
Dr. Rolf Zinkernagel was a co-organiser of the Singapore-based Novartis Institute
of Tropical Diseases (NITD’s) Inaugural Symposium on Dengue Fever and Tuberculosis in
January 2003. He and Dr. Brenner remain members of NITD’s Scientific Advisory Board.
The NITD will be moving to the Biopolis in 2004.