Molecular imaging researcher shares 2008 Nobel Prize for chemistry

October 14, 2008 Molecular imaging researcher shares 2008 Nobel Prize for chemistry James Brice Molecular imaging researcher Roger Tsien, Ph.D., has been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with two other American scientists for the discovery of green fluorescent protein and the creation of fluorescent molecules that are often used to track subcellular structures during in vivo molecular imaging. A professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, Tsien shares the prize with Osamu Shimomura, Ph.D., of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, and Boston School of Medicine and Martin Chalfie, Ph.D., of Columbia University in New York City. All three were honored for the discovery of green fluorescent proteins and subsequent developments that led to its use as a tagging tool in bioscience. The recipients of the 2008 award were announced Oct. 8.

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