Aziz Sancar İngilizce Biyografisi

İngilizce Ödevleri    Nisan 11, 2021    biyografi , ingilizce   

Aziz Sancar  İngilizce Hayatı

Aziz Sancar was born in 1946 in Savur district of Mardin. He completed his primary and secondary education in Savur and Mardin. Afterwards, he studied at Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine. 

After working as a doctor for two years in Savur, he did his doctorate at the University of Texas in Molecular Biology, on DNA repair. He completed his associate professorship in DNA repair at Yale University.

In 1982 he worked in the fields of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UNC Chapel Hill. Here he worked on DNA repair, cell sequencing, cancer treatment, and biological clock. He has published 288 articles and 33 books.

Since 1997, He has been Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. He is recognized as the first American Turkish elected to the US National Academy of Sciences.

He won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research mapping how cells repair damaged DNA and preserve their genetic information.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Turkish Academy of Sciences in the USA. He received an award in 2007 at the Vehbi Koç Foundation. He lives with his wife, Gwen Sancar, in Chapel Hill. Aziz and Gwen Sancar are among the founders of the Turkish House in Carolina.

The "excinuclease / excision nuclease" enzyme terms, which Aziz Sancar invented and named with the "maxicell" technique developed and named after him, entered the Oxford Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dictionary.