Full Bio
Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-born biochemist at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and a recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Nobel Prize materials identify his prize share for mechanistic studies of DNA repair and describe his work on how repair enzymes help correct DNA damaged by ultraviolet light.
Sancars archive profile should foreground research, teaching, and the public value of basic science. His work increased understanding of DNA repair, cancer, aging, and cellular survival. As a Muslim scientist working in the United States, he gives the homepage a concrete, internationally recognized example of scientific contribution anchored in a university lab.
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Biography and setting
Aziz Sancar is presented as scholar associated with North Carolina. The working chronology for this record is 1946-. Known for DNA repair research, teaching, and scientific service in the United States. Aziz Sancar is presented as biochemist and nobel laureate associated with North Carolina. The working chronology for this record is 1946-. Known for DNA repair research, teaching, and scientific service in the United States.
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