Aziz Sancar
Turkish geneticist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015
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Aziz Sancar is a Turkish geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015 for his research on how cells repair damaged DNA. His work has helped scientists understand the fundamental biological processes that protect us from disease and aging.
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- 1946-09-08
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- Hayati ve Bilimi
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- Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
· 2015 · cited 28,221x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,384x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
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Aziz Sancar ( Turkish: [aˈziz ˈsandʒaɾ]; born 8 September 1946) is a Turkish-American 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.
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. 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.
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1946 birthsAmerican biochemistsAmerican MuslimsAmerican Nobel laureatesFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesHonorary members of the Turkish Academy of SciencesIstanbul University alumniLiving peopleMembers of the National Academy of MedicineMembers of the United States National Academy of SciencesNobel laureates in Chemistry