Conversations That Matter: The legacy of a B.C. Nobel winner

It was 25 years ago that the Nobel committee named Michael Smith of UBC as the winner in chemistry for his work in site-directed mutagenesis. In other words, making specific changes to the DNA sequence of a gene – a process that he developed even before the human genome was fully mapped.
He was a remarkable scientist and a remarkable man who went to great lengths in attracting research talent to B.C. He donated his entire prize money to research and thus played a vital role