Aziz Sancar

Born 1946 · Turkey and University of North Carolina (USA)

ChemistryMedicine

Known for

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 for explaining how cells repair damaged DNA

Turkish-American biochemist who trained as a physician in Istanbul before moving into molecular biology.

Mapped nucleotide excision repair, the way cells fix DNA damaged by ultraviolet light
Shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich