Capecchi previously won the 201 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the 2001 National Medal of Science, America's highest award for lifetime achievement in research. In 2003, he received Israel's highest honor, for medical research, the World Prize in Medicine, and the 2003 Pezcoller Foundation-American Association for Cancer Research International Award for Cancer Research. In 2005, he was honored with a March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology.

A scientist at the Eccles Institute of Human Genetics at the U. medical school, Capecchi also serves as co-chair of the Department of Human Genetics and helped found the Brain Institute at the U. He holds the Helen Lowe Bamberger Colby and John E. Bamberger Presidential Endowed Chair in the Health Sciences. He is member of the National Academy of Sciences.

His other awards and honors include Fifth Annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research (1992), Gairdner Foundation International Award for Achievements in Medical Science (1993), General Motors Corp.'s Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize for Outstanding Basic Science Contributions to Cancer Research (1994), Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (1996), the Franklin Medal for Advancing Our Knowledge of the Physical Sciences (1997) and the U.'s Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence (1998).

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