Paul Nurse
25 January 1949 – present
Sir Paul Nurse is a British geneticist and cell biologist who identified the genes that control the cell cycle, work for which he shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt. He has led the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Cancer Research UK, Rockefeller University and the Royal Society, and became the first director of the Francis Crick Institute in London.
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Life events
Paul Maxime Nurse was born in Norwich and grew up in Wembley, London.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe received his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Birmingham.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis doctoral research was carried out at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe led the ICRF and, after its merger with the Cancer Research Campaign in 2002, became chief executive of Cancer Research UK.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1999 New Year Honours.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe shared the prize with Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt for discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe moved to the United States to lead Rockefeller University, a post he held until 2011.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe held the presidency of the Royal Society for a five-year term.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe became the first director and chief executive of the biomedical research institute in London.
Source: en.wikipedia.org