Aziz Sancar

Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar
	Sancar in 2015
Born	8 September 1946; Savur, Mardin, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish
Citizenship	Turkey, United States
Alma mater	Istanbul University (MD, 1969); University of Texas at Dallas (PhD, 1977);
Spouses	Gwen Sancar (m. 1978)
Awards	TÜBİTAK Science Award (1995); Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2005); Vehbi Koç Award (2007); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2015);
	Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry; Molecular biology; DNA repair; Molecular biophysics; Cancer research;
Institutions	UNC School of Medicine; UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center; Yale School of Medicine;
Thesis	A study on photoreactivating enzyme (DNA photolyase) of Escherichia coli (1977)
Doctoral advisor	Claud Stan Rupert

Aziz Sancar (Turkish: [ˈaziz ˈsandʒaɾ]; born 8 September 1946) is a Turkish 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.

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.

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