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Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar 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.
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science · Turkish biochemist and molecular biologist (born 1946) · biochemist · molecular biologist · university teacher · geneticist · scientist · researcher · also Aziz Sancar, Sancar
Born 8 September 1946 · Q15118973
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2025· 2 entries
Awarded International Alisher Navoi Prize (2025).
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During a ceremony held at the Sancar Cultural Center in the state of North Carolina, USA, TÜRKSOY General Secretary Sultan Raev presented Sancar with the Order of Cultural Ambassador of the Turkic World
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2021· 1 entry
Sancar was the honorary guest of the Turkic Council on occasion of the meeting of the foreign secretaries from member states and has given a presentation titled "Knowledge and the National Awakening of the Turkic World",
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science (2016).
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Awarded North Carolina Award for Public Service (2016).
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2015· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2015).
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Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004).
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Presidential Young Investigator Award (1984).
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1977· 2 entries
Studied at University of Texas at Dallas, Doctor of Philosophy (1977).
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At The University of Texas at Dallas in the laboratory of Claud Stan Rupert, now Professor Emeritus
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1976· 1 entry
As part of his doctoral dissertation, he managed to replicate the gene for photolyase, an enzyme that repairs thymine dimers that result from ultraviolet damage
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1969· 2 entries
And he graduated from school as the top student
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Studied at Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine (1969).
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1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-09-08.
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