Share your thoughts on Andy Fire and his discoveries related to RNA interference

Congratulations on the elegans work in RNA research

Share credit where credit is due: Go Bears!

A fellow Cal Math graduate.

Reading the Fire/Mello RNAi paper in 1998 was one of the exciting reasons pushing me toward working in C. elegans as a postdoc.

Congratulations to Dr. Fire, who has been a great contributor to the scientific community for a long time.

Cheers,

Andy Spencer

It is an amazing gift to humanity that Dr. Fire has found a way to interfere with viruses that attack and sicken people. I will eagerly follow the progress he and his team of researchers make. I would even volunteer to be in his human trial groups if there was a need. Thank you Dr. Fire and Stanford Medical Center. Congratulations on your well-deserved award.

am really happy that this discovery was awarded because of its valuable importance and applications. RNAi is supposed to be as a short way to achieve many faraway dream on behalf of humanity. congratulations

Terrific, congrats, could not have come to a more deserving person.

A huge thanks and an enormous congratulations for the Nobel Prize!

Regards

So this is the mechanism of controlling gene expression for eukaryotic cells much like how the inducible operons control gene expression for prokaryotic cells?

I am proud of Prof. Fire and Stanford as an alumni

I think that this is a wonderful discovery and I hope that this is THE breakthrough for a myriad of diseases.

You are the best!
Congratulations!!!

very good!

Congratulations! It is a discovery worth the Nobel prize.

As a former postdoc in Weissman lab, I expected a Nobel prize for medicine going to Stanford in the coming years. Of course, Andy Fire is a wonderful example that a real interest in life sciences and mathematics in younger years could be a good base for such a happy development. In addition, he demonstrates how valuable living in Stanford area can be. Congratulations!

No one can imagine the great surprise that I was caught in when I knew that the authors of the Nature paper, which I was reading just two days ago, has been awarded the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2006, specifically for that paper.

They have unmasked mechanisms that weren't scratched before & explained many ambiguous results. I now understand many vague concepts I faced during my biochemistry & immunology courses in my medical school. Their historical discovery will change the way of biomedical research leading to novel therapies that will change the lives of millions of patients with many diseases in the future.

I was about to email Dr. Fire & Dr. Mello some questions & inquiries regarding their work & the progress in the RNAi. Besides, I was planning to discuss with both of them to work in their labs after my graduation. But the image is now darker for me brighter not only for them but also for the humankind whom they spent their vacations working for. I don't think that they will have time til the Nobel Prize celebration ends to answer my questions or reply my request to work with them.

Dr. Fire and Dr. Mello, let me express my congratulations from the inmost of my heart for you, your research teams, & your families. I wish I could have a place in your lab soon after my graduation. I don't know why I consider myself a special person who knows those great scientists but I am happy that I believe I am.

Youssef
Final Year Medical Student
Mansoura Faculty of Medicine
Mansoura, Egypt.

Congratulations!!! You most certainly deserve this honour!

Hearty congratulations, Dr. Fire! As a former post-doc of Stanford med school, I am so proud and happy.

Congratulations! Congratulations! It's great to see your exatraordinary work is being acknowledged with highest award i.e. for great international scientific research........Nobel Prize.

Congratulations Dr. Fire. This institution is proud of you, and all of us graduate students hope to aspire to do great work as you have done. Congratulations from the cancer biology students.

This is one giant leap for medicine and mankind. You put a smile on my face and hope in my heart.

Go Bears!

Congratulations Cal Math Alumnus!

Go Bears! this will no doubt benefit society, when will you come to teach at Berkeley?

Andy - you and Rachel were our neighbors on Bright Leaf Way! We are so proud of you!!!
-Ira and Linda Skolnik

Great going Andy!

My heartiest congrats to you and Stanford. I am an alumnus of Stanford med school and was in L-308-A, Lane Building as a postdoc. Wonderful to know that my corridor-person received the Nobel!

Ram

Congratulations for the Nobel Prize!!!!!!

You really deserve that. I wish I could have a place in your lab as Ph.D as i'm going to apply for it this autumn.

Good luck
Regards

Congratulations!

Dear Dr.Fire,
For a lay person to the field of medicine, it is very nice to understand, and applaud, the depth of the research. Kudos to you sir and good luck with your future.

Regards,
Saranyan

Hearty congratulations!

Congratulations!!!
Your discoveries certainly benefit the society and will surely lead to saving many people's lives.

Congratulations.

Congratulations!
Welcome to Stockholm, Sweden!

I'm so far from medicine and biology but I'm real proud of A. Fire and his colleague. Science is a winner! My congratulations to Stanford.

Congratulations! Not only the prize but more importantly the great discovery

This discovery of RNA interference is a great service to the human race to fight against so many diseases. God bless Dr. Fire to make more and more outstanding contributions to this world! Congratulations to a remarkably modest man and his family!

Dear Dr. Fire,

Heartiest congratulations.

Fired up! Prof. Andy Fire deserves it. His discovery in his late 30s is recognized very early and credit goes to Stanford University. The Sunnyvale community is proud of Andrew Fire.

Mazal Tov, Andy!! We who have known you your whole life look forward to celebrating this well-deserved prize with you.

Congratulations on your well-deserved award. Now, clinical pharmacologists and pharmacodynamic modeling people can identify one step in the processes involved in viral attacks (especially HIV) to validate any assumptions of transduction compartments. This is made more amenable to modeling by Dr. Fire's efforts.

Congratulations Andy! I am so happy for you, your family and for the future support towards your ongoing research. A boon for all humanity in the research to follow, in the years to come.

congratulations, Mr. Fire! you are a hero in life science

just want to congratulate you ....
I think all these are caused by stanford's unique integrity that we all should remember and adore everywhere in the world ...

Hossein Ghasemi
IRAN

Congratulations!

great work, a deserved prize
congratulations

Sir, it's really great news. My hearty congratulations to you. As I am a PhD scholar working on gene silencing and suppressors of gene silencing, this really gave me a lot of enthusiasm and happiness. Congratulations sir....

Congratulations!
Go Bears!!!

Cheers, and congratulations! It is an exciting time for us! Proud of you!

He is on Fire! Congratulations professor and yes, Go Bears!

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations Dr. Fire, on your well-deserved award. Very happy for you, your parents/family. Fundamental discoveries like these are boons for all humanity.

Congratulations Professor Fire,
With regards.
Jayanta

Congratulations, and cheers, today is Chinese traditional festival--Mid-autumn Day, Best wishes!

Heartiest Congratulations Dr. Fire...! :-)

Congratulations on your great contribution to the scientific community.

Congratulations on RNA research. My dream as post-doctoral fellow is to work on this kind of science. All the best,

Yannick Comenge
Secretary of French Pugwash Group
Phd in Microbiology

congratulations Dr Fire, science proud of ur work, ur becoming a creater for discovery of new biological RNA tool, al da best for ur future work

Congrats to my childhood friend, Andy, who by all accounts has been the model of modesty in accepting this award. As Carnegie Institute's David Schwartz noted, "Anyone who knows him will not be surprised that he won." I can attest that all his Fremont High School and even Hollenbeck Elementary School friends are truly not the least bit surprised. Andy was not just the brain of the class/school, but was obviously set apart from even this, and always a really nice guy. I'm thrilled both for Andy and for this new door he's helped open wrt RNAi, and the potentially millions of future lives this will change for the better. Cheers, Andy!

I hope China will win the prize.

Congratulations !!
Andy Fire !!
And
The STANFORD!!

U have done great
We are there to follow you, Stanford/A.Fire!!
Best of Luck for your Future,
Why not Second time?

congratulations! Dr. Fire.

Great! I was expecting the Nobel for RNAi. Andy Fire's papers have made me work on the siRNA design algorithm and the delivery strategies based on Nano carriers. No wonder, the passion of working with siRNA transfected us like a fire from Fire.

It is that time of the year when every researcher from variegated fields of human enquiry gets the special feeling of euphoria and elation by seeing the success achieved by the ingenius among them for doing dedicated basic research.
Congratulations!

congratulations Professor Fire
for making the silence of the genes
eloquent!
regards
mohan

Great work! I am a student at a college in Alabama and my biology teacher has asked the class to write a report on you and Mr. Mello. I'm happy I had to do this assignment.

i am proud to have taught medicine at stanford and above all greatly elated at the honour ANDREW FIRE has bestowed on STANFORD. God bless stanford

SUPERB!!!
It'll not only lead to discovery of better therapies but also to new research tools like disease model development for efficient drug discovery research.....
Heartiest congrats......

Congratulations Dr Fire.
Your research has given us a new insight.
Keep up the good work in basic sciences.

congratulations Dr Fire.
Your research have given us new insight. I have just completed my PhD and your research has inspired me to do basic research in field of gene regulation.

Congratulations!

Really this a wonderful finding. Great scientists are one of the needful and amazing things to mankind. Good luck, we are grateful to you.

Dr. J. Pandiyan,
Lecturer in Zoology,
Bishop Heber College,
Tamilnadu, India

Many congratulations.

Congratulations to Professor Fire and Prof. Mello on the amazing work in RNAi and for receiving the Nobel Prize. The world appreciates your efforts.

It is an irony that, while the great scientists and researchers of the world, such as you, are trying to find cure for human beings' diseases and save lives, others are easily destroying lives and creating misery by imposing meaningless wars on innocent people.

Best
Freeda Saba, JD
Los Angeles

congratulations sir. this is a great gift to the world.

Congratulations to Professor Fire for your distinguished RNA research, catch it and remember it!

Congrats Dr Fire, from a fellow CAL Physics, Biochem, and Medicine grad....GO BEARS!

Great work! Congratulations sir! I am a student in China! Give my best wishes to you and Mr.Mello! And my congratulations to Stanford and Massachusetts Medical School !

Heartiest congratulations,

For the remarkable discovery...

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

your discovery leads a new direction of molecular research!
we admire you!

Hi! Congratulations on doing all of that research and finding out that certain rna molecules can be used to turn off specific animal genes. I am a fifth grader and researched all about your life and how you won the nobel prize! Congrats!

wow, you are an amazing person to research. I am a senior at Unity High School in Balsam Lake, WI. I am in Chem II reading all about u and ur accomplishments. Congrats to you and all your fellow researchers!!

this is really a great news, a nobel prize on RNAi was well awaited. I have been related with the subject since year 2000 and gone through all the reports on step by step development of gene silencing concepts in animals and plants. Although Fire and Mello had accomplished great applications of silencing through RNAi and they are very well deserved but I think nobel committee have overlooked work of Dr. Baulcombe whose discovery of small RNAs involved in gene silencing has actually boosted understanding and technology of RNAi.

Very impressive! All the best to you! Congratulatory greetings from a high school Mathematics teacher and Fremont High School (Sunnyvale, CA) graduate!

Dr. Fire. I would like to ask what will the money be used for, because I am doing a project on this, and I would love to know more about the research process, and any further steps. Congrats.

He is on Fire!

I'll say. He most certainly is.
Congratulations, Professor Fire. I'm doing a report on you for Biology class.

It's excellent goal achieved by him.
As a role model for forthcoming nobel scientists.
Congratulations!

Congratulations. I worked with your dad Phil at GTE for many years.

Your father Phil Fire was the original Dr. Phil (at least as far as GTE was concerned). Your father came up with the concept for, and was the key contributor to, GTE getting the very profitable TRAINS Programs. Later was the Chief Scientist in the Chief Engineer's office at GTE. Very good guy.

Respected Sir!

I am greatly delighted that you have been awarded the nobel prize in medicine 2006. This indeed is a great achievement for you. However I believe that you must continue to work hard and inspire others to work in the novel field that you have cherished for all of us. I pray for your success.

Best Regards and greetings from Pakistan,
Yours sincere,
Dr Hadi Meeran

I am thrilled by the discovery. It is the discovery of this century and will definitely have a great role in drug discovery. Congatulations to the both geniuses for getting a Nobel Prize and for their contribution to science.

Congratulations Dr. Fire!

Go Bears, Indians, and Marauders!

Another terriffic testimonial to the golden years of Sunnyvale public schools.

As much as I acknowledge the excellent contributions of Drs. Fire and Mello to this field of RNA research, I hope that peope do not completely forget (as the Nobel Commitee did) that much of the breakthroughs in this area were pioneered by plant research scientists.

Brother Andy - Congratulations to you, Craig, and the rest of your research team on the great RNAi work and incredible Nobel award. My question is: when will you start playing the cello again? The Beethoven "Eyeglass" Duet is waiting!

congratulations for the discovery and the prize, both of you are a great source of encouragement to young reseaechers, cheers!!!

Great discovery.. setting up a completely new field.. Congrats :-)

Congratulations for such a landmark discovery to you Dr. Fire. It's really a great finding.....