Grantee Allis Wins Wiley Prize
Dr. C.
David Allis, an NIGMS grantee since 1984, recently received
the third annual Wiley Prize in the Biomedical Sciences. The international
award recognizes "contributions that have opened new fields of research
or advanced novel concepts or their applications in a particular biomedical
discipline." Allis is the Joy and Jack Fishman professor in the laboratory
of chromatin biology and epigenetics at the Rockefeller University in
New York City. According to Dr. Günter Blobel, chair of the Wiley
Prize awards jury, Allis is being honored for his "significant discovery
that transcription factors can enzymatically modify histones to regulate
gene activity." This fundamental work led Allis to propose the existence
of a "histone code" of gene regulation. Allis will receive a
$25,000 grant from the Wiley Foundation and deliver an honorary lecture
at an Apr. 21 ceremony at the Rockefeller University.
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