Jack Szostak

Jack W. Szostak

Jack William Szostak (born November 9, 1952 in London ) is a Canadian - American molecular biologist of British - Polish descent, who became known for his work on the enzyme telomerase .

He was, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded in 2009.

education

Szostak grew up in Montreal and Ottawa, Canada. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Cell Biology from McGill University in Montreal , Canada in 1972 . In 1977 he received the Ph.D. from Cornell University in Ithaca , New York for biochemistry . For the next two years he was a Research Associate at Cornell University in the same field.

Awards

Szostak is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1998), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999), the American Philosophical Society (2012), the Royal Society (2019) and the New York Academy of Sciences . In 2006 he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

• 1994 National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology
• 1997 Hans Sigrist Prize , University of Bern , Switzerland
• 2000 Genetics Society of America Medal
• 2006 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
• 2008 HP Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics
• 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Web links

Commons : Jack W. Szostak  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Szostak Lab website
• Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 2009 award ceremony to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak (English)
• About Jack W. Szostak . The Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Retrieved October 5, 2009.
• Jack W. Szostak at Harvard University . Harvard University. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
• Michael Marshall: The secret of how life on earth began , on: BBC - Earth, October 31, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member History: Jack W. Szostak. American Philosophical Society, accessed December 5, 2018 (with biographical notes).