Jack W. Szostak

Jack W. Szostak, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1952-11-09 in London, United Kingdom

Gender: male

Field: American biologist

Biography

Jack William Szostak is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent, Nobel Prize laureate, university professor at the University of Chicago, former professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Szostak has made significant contributions to the field of genetics. His achievement helped scientists to map the location of genes in mammals and to develop techniques for manipulating genes. His research findings in this area are also instrumental to the Human Genome Project. He was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

Awarded on: 2009-10-05

"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

Affiliations:

  • Harvard Medical SchoolBoston, MA, USA
  • Massachusetts General HospitalBoston, MA, USA
  • Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUSA