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Jack W. Szostak (born Nov. 9, 1952, London, Eng.) is an English-born American biochemist and geneticist who was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with American molecular biologists Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, for his discoveries concerning the function of telomeres (segments of DNA occurring at the ends of chromosomes), which play a vital role in determining cell life span.
Mar 18, 2010 · Jack W Szostak (professor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston) switched focus to the fascinating question of the origin of life. He investigates threose nucleic acid molecules, progenitors ...
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 was awarded jointly to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"
Jack W. Szostak delivered his Nobel Lecture on 7 December 2009 at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He was introduced by Professor Thomas Perlmann, member of the Nobel Assembly and associate member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.
Jack W. Szostak Department of Genetics Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Molecular Biology, Wellman-9, Boston, MA 02114 tel: (617) 732-5981 fax: (617) 726-6893 email: szostak@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu. Szostak Lab Web Page
Jack W. Szostak Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School Alex. A. Rich Distinguished Investigator, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital University Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago szostak@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu : Harry Aitken - Postdoc
Oct 5, 2009 · Jack W. Szostak is a US citizen. He was born in 1952 in London, UK and grew up in Canada. He was born in 1952 in London, UK and grew up in Canada. He studied at McGill University in Montreal and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he received his PhD in 1977.
