When was Aziz Sancar born?

Aziz Sancar was born on 8 September 1946 in Savur district.

Where did Aziz Sancar study?

Aziz Sancar was educated at Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, University of Texas at Dallas, Istanbul Technical University.

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Aziz Sancar

Turkish geneticist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015

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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. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair. He has made contributions on photolyase and nucleotide excision repair in bacteria that have changed his field.

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Born: 8 September 1946 wd
Place of birth: Savur district wd
Citizenship: Turkey, United States wd
Occupation: biochemist, molecular biologist, university teacher, geneticist, scientist wd
Education: Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, University of Texas at Dallas, Istanbul Technical University wd
Official website: sancar.org wd
Social media: X (Twitter) wd

Awards wd

Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2015)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004)
Presidential Young Investigator Award (1984)
Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science (2016)
honorary diploma of President of Azerbaijan Republic (2021)
North Carolina Award for Public Service (2016)
International Alisher Navoi Prize (2025)
Shohrat Order (2026)

About

Sancar is currently the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is the co-founder of the Aziz & Gwen Sancar Foundation, which is a non-profit organization to promote Turkish culture and to support Turkish students in the United States.

Questions

When was Aziz Sancar born?: Aziz Sancar was born on 8 September 1946 in Savur district.
Where did Aziz Sancar study?: Aziz Sancar was educated at Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, University of Texas at Dallas, Istanbul Technical University.

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