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Aziz Sancar
Turkish biochemist and molecular biologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aziz Sancar (Turkish: [aˈziz ˈsandʒaɾ]; born 8 September 1946) is a Turkish molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock.[5][6] 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.[7][8] He has made contributions on photolyase and nucleotide excision repair in bacteria that have changed his field.
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Born | (1946-09-08) 8 September 1946 (age 77) |
Nationality | Turkish |
Citizenship | Turkey, United States |
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Gwen Sancar (m. 1978) |
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Thesis | A study on photoreactivating enzyme (DNA photolyase) of Escherichia coli (1977) |
Doctoral advisor | Claud Stan Rupert |
Sancar is currently the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.[9] He is the co-founder of the Aziz & Gwen Sancar Foundation, which is a non-profit organization to promote Turkish culture and to support Turkish students in the United States.[1]