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Phillip Sharp

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Also known as Phillip Allen Sharp, Phillip A. Sharp

American biologist

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Phillip A. Sharp is a male person from the United States, born on 1944-06-06. He is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His Erdős number is 5.

Sharp has been recognized in the Royal Society collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the Nobel Laureates collection. He is also included in the Nobel Medicine collection.

In the field of music, he is associated with genres including avant-garde, composer, contemporary classical, experimental, and free improvisation. Additionally, an author named Robert Phillip Sharp has one work titled *Glaciers in the Arctic*.

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Person · Open Library

Works
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Top works

  • Glaciers in the Arctic

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1951-03-01
avant-gardecomposercontemporary classicalexperimentalfree improvisationjazz and blues

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Key facts

Born
( 1944-06-06 ) June 6, 1944 (age 81) , Falmouth, Kentucky , U.S.
Education
Union Commonwealth University ( BA ) University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ( PhD )
Spouse
Ann Holcombe ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1964 ) ​
Awards
NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1980) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1988) Dickson Prize (1991) Nobel Prize (1993) Novartis-Drew Award (2003) National Medal of Science (2004)
Fields
Biologist
Institutions
Caltech Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory MIT
Doctoral students
Connie Cepko Andrew Fire Melissa J. Moore Richard Carthew
Website
web .mit .edu /sharplab

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1993

    for their discoveries of split genes

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Encyclopedic overview

Phillip Allen Sharp (born June 6, 1944) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns, and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways, yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence". He was awarded the 2015 Othmer Gold Medal.

Sharp's current research focuses on small RNAs and other types of non-coding RNAs. His laboratory works to identify the target mRNAs of microRNAs (miRNAs), and has discovered a class of miRNAs that are produced from sequences adjacent to transcription start sites. His laboratory also studies how miRNA gene regulation functions in angiogenesis and cellular stress.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phillip Sharp” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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