Walter receives Shaw Price in Life Science and Medicine

A UC San Francisco professor of biochemistry and biophysics has received Asia’s highest scientific honor, the 2014 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine, for his groundbreaking discovery of a system that makes “life and death decisions” for the cell.

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Peter Walter Receives Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine

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