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Phillip A. Sharp was born in 1944. He is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His Erdős number is 5.
Sharp has received one Nobel Prize. He is recognized in several collections, including the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Medicine collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the National Medal Of Science collection.
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Sharp
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Falmouth
- Occupation
- biochemist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Student of
- James Watson
- Field of work
- molecular biology
- Image
- Phillip Sharp HD2007 with Winthrop Sears Medal (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Phillip Allen Sharp
- date of birth
- 1944-06-06
- Erdős number
- 5
- student
- Andrew Fire
- affiliation string
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- affiliation
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- interested in
- genetics
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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.
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