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'''Aziz Sancar''' (born 8{{nbsp}}September 1946) is a [[Turkish people|Turkish]] [[Biochemistry|biochemist]] and [[molecular biologist]] specializing in [[DNA repair]], [[cell cycle]] checkpoints, and the circadian clock.<ref>http://www.med.unc.edu/biochem/asancar</ref> 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.<ref name="NYT-20151007-wjb">{{cite news |last=Broad |first=William J. |title=Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for DNA Studies |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/science/tomas-lindahl-paul-modrich-aziz-sancarn-nobel-chemistry.html |date=7 October 2015 |work=[[New York Times]] |accessdate=7 October 2015 }}</ref><ref name="NP-20151007">{{cite news |author=Staff |title=THE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY 2015 - DNA repair – providing chemical stability for life |url=http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2015/popular-chemistryprize2015.pdf |format=[[PDF]] |date=7 October 2015 |work=[[Nobel Prize]] |accessdate=7 October 2015 }}</ref> |
'''Aziz Sancar''' (born 8{{nbsp}}September 1946) is a [[Turkish people|Turkish]] [[Biochemistry|biochemist]] and [[molecular biologist]] specializing in [[DNA repair]], [[cell cycle]] checkpoints, and the circadian clock.<ref>http://www.med.unc.edu/biochem/asancar</ref> 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.<ref name="NYT-20151007-wjb">{{cite news |last=Broad |first=William J. |title=Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for DNA Studies |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/science/tomas-lindahl-paul-modrich-aziz-sancarn-nobel-chemistry.html |date=7 October 2015 |work=[[New York Times]] |accessdate=7 October 2015 }}</ref><ref name="NP-20151007">{{cite news |author=Staff |title=THE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY 2015 - DNA repair – providing chemical stability for life |url=http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2015/popular-chemistryprize2015.pdf |format=[[PDF]] |date=7 October 2015 |work=[[Nobel Prize]] |accessdate=7 October 2015 }}</ref> |
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He is the co-founder of the Aziz and Gwen Sancar Foundation which is a non-profit organization to promote [[Turkish culture]] and to support Turkish students |
He is the co-founder of the Aziz and Gwen Sancar Foundation which is a non-profit organization to promote [[Turkish culture]] and to support Turkish students in the United States.<ref name="Carolina"/> |
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== Early life and career == |
== Early life and career == |
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Aziz Sancar (born 8 September 1946) is a Turkish biochemist and molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and the circadian clock.[4] 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.[5][6]
He is the co-founder of the Aziz and Gwen Sancar Foundation which is a non-profit organization to promote Turkish culture and to support Turkish students in the United States.[3]
Early life and career
Aziz Sancar was born into a lower-middle class family in the Savur district of Mardin Province, southeastern Turkey on September 8, 1946.[7] He was the seventh child of eight. His parents were illiterate; however, they put great emphasis on education.[8]
Aziz Sancar is honorary member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences[9] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[10]
His longest-running study has involved photolyase and the mechanisms of photo-reactivation. In his inaugural article in the PNAS, Sancar captures the elusive photolyase radicals he has chased for nearly 20 years, thus providing direct observation of the photocycle for thymine dimer repair.[11]
Aziz Sancar was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005 as the first Turkish-American member.[11] He is the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is married to Gwen Boles Sancar, who graduated the same year and who is also a Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[12] Together, they founded Carolina Turk Evi, a permanent Turkish Center in close proximity to the campus of UNC-CH, which provides graduate housing for four Turkish researchers at UNC-CH, short term guest services for Turkish visiting scholars, and a center for promoting Turkish-American interchange.[3]
Education
Sancar completed his M.D. in Istanbul University of Turkey and completed his Ph.D. on the photoreactivating enzyme of E. coli in 1977 at the University of Texas at Dallas[13] in the laboratory of Dr. C. Stan Rupert, now Professor Emeritus.
Awards
He was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair.[5][6] Sancar is the second Turkish Nobel laureate after Orhan Pamuk, who is also an alumnus of Istanbul University.
References
- ^ "Geçmiş Yıllarda Bilim Ödülü Alanlar" (in Turkish). Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
- ^ "Ödül Alanlar". Vehbi Koç Award. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
- ^ a b c "The Aziz & Gwen Sancar Foundation – Carolina Türk Evi – Turkish House, NC". carolinaturkevi.org. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
- ^ http://www.med.unc.edu/biochem/asancar
- ^ a b Broad, William J. (7 October 2015). "Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for DNA Studies". New York Times. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
- ^ a b Staff (7 October 2015). "THE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY 2015 - DNA repair – providing chemical stability for life" (PDF). Nobel Prize. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
- ^ "Nobel Prize in Chemistry: how our DNA repairs itself". Deutsch Welle. 7 October 2015.
- ^ "Nobel Kimya Ödülü'nü Türk asıllı Aziz Sancar kazandı (Aziz Sancar kimdir)". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2015-10-07. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar". Turkish Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
- ^ "American Academy Announces 2004 Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
- ^ a b Zagorski, N. (2005). "Profile of Aziz Sancar". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (45): 16125–16127. doi:10.1073/pnas.0507558102. PMC 1283445. PMID 16263927.
- ^ "Biology : Aziz Sancar elected to the National Academy of Sciences". utdallas.edu. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
- ^ "Aziz Sancar". UNC School of Medicine. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
