Bussum, Netherlands, 1 March, 2010: Dr. Marshall. W. Nirenberg, Nobel Prize winning geneticist from NIH, published his last and most recent work in Current Chemical Genomics (www.bentham.org/open/tochgenj). He co-authored on the article entitled “A Cell-based beta-Lactamase Reporter Gene Assay for the CREB Signaling Pathway” which was about identifying small molecule potentiators of the CREB signaling pathway. Dr. Nirenberg passed away recently at age 82 in his New York home on January 15, after several months of illness.

Dr. Marshall. W. Nirenberg (April 10, 1927 – January 15, 2010) was an American biochemist and geneticist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert W. Holley for "breaking the genetic code" and describing how it operates in protein synthesis. In the same year, together with Har Gobind Khorana, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.

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