Aziz Sancar

Aziz Sancar is a Turkish molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with... Wikipedia

• Born:  September 8, 1946, Savur, Mardin, Turkey
• Age:  78 years
• Citizenship:  Turkey, United States
• Fields:  Biochemistry, Molecular biology, DNA repair, Molecular biophysics, Cancer research
• Institutions:  UNC School of Medicine, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine
• Education:  Istanbul University (MD), University of Texas at Dallas (PhD)
• Thesis:  A study on photoreactivating enzyme (DNA photolyase) of Escherichia coli (1977)
• Notable awards:  TÜBİTAK Science Award (1995), Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2005), Vehbi Koç Award (2007), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2015)
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