The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015
Awarded on: 2015-10-07
"for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"
Affiliations:
- University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Aziz Sancar
Born: 1946-09-08 in Savur, Turkey
Gender: male
Field: Turkish biochemist and molecular biologist (born 1946)
Biography
Aziz Sancar is a Turkish molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair. He has made contributions on photolyase and nucleotide excision repair in bacteria that have changed his field.