Paul Modrich

Paul Modrich, Nobel Laureate

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.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015

Awarded on: 2015-10-07

"for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"

Affiliations:

  • Howard Hughes Medical InstituteDurham, NC, USA
  • Duke University School of MedicineDurham, NC, USA