Aziz Sancar
8 September 1946 – present
Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American molecular biologist whose research established mechanisms by which cells repair damaged DNA. Trained as a physician in Istanbul before completing a doctorate in the United States, he spent most of his career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
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Life events
Born into a farming family in south-eastern Turkey, the seventh of eight children.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCompleted his medical degree and afterwards practised as a physician in rural Turkey.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCompleted a PhD under Claud Stan Rupert on the photolyase enzyme, cloning its gene during his doctoral work.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWorked in the laboratory of Dean Rupp at Yale on the bacterial DNA excision repair system.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAppointed to the biochemistry and biophysics faculty of the UNC School of Medicine.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBecame the first Turkish-American member of the academy.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgFounded a foundation supporting Turkish students in the United States and Turkish-American cultural exchange.
Shared the prize with Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
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