Aziz Sancar

Aziz Sancar

Aziz Sancar (Turkish: [aˈziz ˈsandʒaɾ]; born 8 September 1946) is a Turkish-American molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock.

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Aziz Sancar (Turkish: [aˈziz ˈsandʒaɾ]; born 8 September 1946) 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.

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Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair.

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In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L.

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He has made contributions on photolyase and nucleotide excision repair in bacteria that have changed his field.

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