When was Phillip Allen Sharp born?

Phillip Allen Sharp was born on 6 June 1944 in Falmouth.

Where did Phillip Allen Sharp study?

Phillip Allen Sharp was educated at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Union Commonwealth University.

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Phillip Allen Sharp

American biologist

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Phillip Allen Sharp (born June 6, 1944) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns, and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways, yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence". He was awarded the 2015 Othmer Gold Medal.

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Born: 6 June 1944 wd
Place of birth: Falmouth wd
Citizenship: United States wd
Occupation: geneticist, molecular biologist, university teacher, chemist, biochemist wd
Education: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Union Commonwealth University wd

Awards wd

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1988)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1993)
Canada Gairdner International Award (1986)
National Medal of Science (2004)
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1988)
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize (1986)
Dickson Prize in Medicine (1991)
NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1980)
Mendel Medal (1993)
Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2011)
Othmer Gold Medal (2015)
Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize (1985)
AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research (2020)
Winthrop-Sears Medal

About

Sharp's current research focuses on small RNAs and other types of non-coding RNAs. His laboratory works to identify the target mRNAs of microRNAs (miRNAs), and has discovered a class of miRNAs that are produced from sequences adjacent to transcription start sites. His laboratory also studies how miRNA gene regulation functions in angiogenesis and cellular stress.

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When was Phillip Allen Sharp born?: Phillip Allen Sharp was born on 6 June 1944 in Falmouth.
Where did Phillip Allen Sharp study?: Phillip Allen Sharp was educated at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Union Commonwealth University.

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