The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015
Awarded on: 2015-10-07
"for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"
Affiliations:
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute – Durham, NC, USA
- Duke University School of Medicine – Durham, NC, USA
Paul Modrich
Born: 1946-06-13 in Raton, NM, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biochemist and Nobel Laureate (born 1946)
Biography
Paul Lawrence Modrich is an American biochemist, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is known for his research on DNA mismatch repair. Modrich received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015, jointly with Aziz Sancar and Tomas Lindahl.