| Date of Birth | 1912 | |
| Place of Birth |
Cleveland (United States of America, Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Area code 216) |
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| Nationality | United States of America | |
| Also know as | Paul C Zamecnik | |
| Profession | Inventor, Scientist | |
| Paul Charles Zamecnik was an American scientist who played a central role in the early history of molecular biology. He was a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a senior scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Zamecnik pioneered the in vitro synthesis of proteins and helped elucidate the way cells generate proteins. With Mahlon Hoagland he co-discovered transfer RNA. Through his later work, he is credited as the inventor of antisense therapeutics. Throughout his career, Zamecnik earned over a dozen US patents for his therapeutic techniques. Up until his death in 2009 he maintained a lab at MGH where he studied the application of synthetic oligonucleotides for chemotherapeutic treatment of drug resistant and XDR tuberculosis in his later years. | ||
Awards by Paul Zamecnik |
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