Roberts joins InVivo board
InVivo Therapeutics Corp. said today that the scientist who won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of split genes has joined its scientific advisory board.
That scientist is Richard Roberts, who won a Nobel Prize in 1993, the Cambridge company said.
InVivo is a medical device company focused on restoring function in individuals paralyzed by traumatic spinal cord injury; its science is based on research started at laboratories at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Roberts won his Nobel Prize for the discovery that a given gene could be present in DNA as several, well-separated segments; the discovery of split genes has been important to basic biological and more medically oriented research, InVivo said.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)
