Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to DNA Repair Researchers
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 was awarded to three scientists that made fundamental contributions to the study of how cells repair DNA and maintain genomic integrity.
Thomas Lindahl, Ph.D., emeritus scientist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, was recognized for his discoveries in base excision repair. Paul Modrich, Ph.D., investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor of biochemistry Duke University School of Medicine, was honored for uncovering how cells resolve errors that occur during DNA replication. Aziz Sancar, M.D., Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, was acknowledged for his seminal work on the nucleotide excision repair pathway.
