John Sulston

Sir

John Sulston

CH FRS MAE
Sir; John Sulston; CH FRS MAE
	Sulston in 2008
Born	John Edward Sulston; 27 March 1942; Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, England
Died	6 March 2018 (aged 75)
Education	Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known for	Genome sequencing of Caenorhabditis elegans and humans; Sulston score; Apoptosis
Spouse	Daphne Edith Bate (m. 1966)
Children	1 son, 1 daughter
Awards	W. Alden Spencer Award (1986); EMBO Membership (1989); Darwin Medal (1996); Beadle Award (2000); Knight Bachelor (2001); Edinburgh Medal (2001); Physiological Society Annual Review Prize Lecture (2002); Nobel prize (2002); Gairdner Award (2002);
	Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry; Molecular biology;
Institutions	Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; University of Cambridge; Salk Institute; Laboratory of Molecular Biology; University of Manchester;
Thesis	Aspects of oligoribonucleotide synthesis (1966)
Doctoral advisor	Colin Reese
Website	sanger.ac.uk/people/faculty/honorary-faculty/john-sulston

Sir John Edward Sulston CH FRS MAE (27 March 1942 – 6 March 2018) was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans in 2002 with his colleagues Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He was a leader in human genome research and Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester. Sulston was in favour of science in the public interest, such as free public access of scientific information and against the patenting of genes and the privatisation of genetic technologies.

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