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Woods Hole Film Festival: "Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution"

Phil Sharp’s journey from a Kentucky farm boy to Nobel laureate embodies the American Dream and the triumph of entrepreneurial spirit. His 1977 groundbreaking discovery of RNA splicing rewrote the rules of molecular biology and ignited a life-saving scientific revolution, laying the foundation for an industry that has become a cornerstone of global innovation and economic growth – and transformed the health of billions of patients worldwide.Credits DIRECTOR: Bill Haney PRODUCERS: Carina Chavda, Maura McCarthy Haney, Bill Haney SCREENWRITER: Bill Haney CAST: Philip A. Sharp, Mark Ruffalo, Walter Isaacson, Noubar Afeyen