The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
Awarded on: 2002-10-07
"for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death"
Affiliations:
- The Molecular Sciences Institute – Berkeley, CA, USA
Sydney Brenner
Born: 1927-01-13 in Germiston, South Africa
Gender: male
Field: South African biologist and Nobel prize winner
Biography
Sydney Brenner was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston. Brenner made significant contributions to work on the genetic code, and other areas of molecular biology while working in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. He established the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for the investigation of developmental biology, and founded the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley, California, United States.