The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993
Awarded on: 1993-10-11
"for their discoveries of split genes"
Affiliations:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Center for Cancer Research – Cambridge, MA, USA
Phillip A. Sharp
Born: 1944-06-06 in Falmouth, KY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American geneticist and molecular biologist
Biography
Phillip Allen Sharp is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns, and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways, yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence". He has been selected to receive the 2015 Othmer Gold Medal.