Overview
Aziz Sancar is a molecular biology specialist with an H-index of 122 at University of North Carolina / Turkey origin (Member). Has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, Cell. Based in Unknown, Unknown, Global.
Biography
Aziz Sancar 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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5 Publications
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SciencePhotochem PhotobiolAnnu Rev Biochem
Key Publications
Clocks, cancer, and chronochemotherapy.
Biography.
Molecular Mechanisms of Transcription-Coupled Repair.
Molecular mechanisms of mammalian DNA repair and the DNA damage checkpoints.
Preface.
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