Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar (born September 8, 1946 in Savur , Mardin Province , Turkey ) is a Turkish- American geneticist . For 2015 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry “for the mechanistic studies on DNA repair ” together with Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich .
Life
Sancar was born in the city of Savur (Mardin Province / Turkey) as one of ten children of a Turkish family. Sancar studied medicine at Istanbul University (MD 1969). He has lived in the USA since 1973. In 1977 he received his PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Texas at Dallas . In 1982 Sancar became an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (School of Medicine), where he was made a full professorship in biochemistry and biophysics in 1988 .
In 1984 he received a Presidential Young Investigator Award . In 1995 he became a member of the Third World Academy of Sciences , in 2004 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a year later a member of the National Academy of Sciences .
He elucidated the molecular mechanisms of DNA repair in the body, in particular nucleotide excision repair (NER) and photolyases .
Others
Together with his wife Gwen Sancar, he is the founder of the Carolina Türk Evi institution , which deals with the affairs of Turkish exchange students in the USA.
Web links
- Profile at nobelprize.org
- Tabular curriculum vitae at the UNC School of Medicine
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 , accessed October 7, 2015 (pdf)
- ↑ http://m.mynet.com/i3.html#http://www.mynet.com/haber/iphone/guncel/etnik-koken-tartismalari-aziz-sancari-kizdirdi-2127190-1
- ↑ Career data according to Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ http://www.carolinaturkevi.org/index.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sancar, Aziz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish-American geneticist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Savur , Turkey |