
Aziz Sancar
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2015for mechanistic studies of DNA repair
- Citizenship
Northern Cyprus
United States
Turkey
- Languages
- English, Turkish
- date of birth
- 9/8/1946
- place of birth
- Savur district
- Age
- 80 years
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- occupation
- molecular biologist
- university teacher
- researcher
- biochemist
- geneticist
- scientist
- field of work
- cell cycle
- circadian rhythm
- DNA repair
- biochemistry
- molecular biology
- deoxyribonucleic acid
- educated at
- University of Texas at Dallas
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- end time: 1977
- Istanbul Technical University
- Istanbul Faculty of Medicine
- academic degree: Doctor of Medicine
- end time: 1969
- University of Texas at Dallas
- employer
- University of North Carolina School of Medicine
- Yale School of Medicine
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 2005
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- start time: 2004
- National Academy of Sciences