Benjamin Blencowe and Brendan Frey win John C. Polanyi Award
The groundbreaking research of two U of T professors has been recognized with the 2011 NSERC John C. Polanyi Award, which honours an individual or team whose Canadian-based research has led to a recent outstanding advance in the natural sciences or engineering. Prof. Benjamin Blencowe of the Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, and Prof. Brendan Frey of The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, were honoured for their contribution to understanding of a gene regulatory code hidden in DNA that allows a relatively small number of genes to be transformed into hundreds of thousands of variations in a process called alternative splicing.
