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Alison Woollard [5] Sir Paul Maxime Nurse OM CH FRS FMedSci HonFREng HonFBA MAE (born 25 January 1949) is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute. [6] [7] [8] He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt ...
Paul Nurse is the Chief Executive Officer of the Crick Institute and a Nobel laureate for his work on cell cycle regulation. He studied the cdc2 gene and its human homologue CDK1 in fission yeast and higher organisms.
Paul Nurse (born January 25, 1949, Norwich, Norfolk, England) is a British scientist who, with Leland H. Hartwell and R. Timothy Hunt, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2001 for discovering key regulators of the cell cycle. Nurse earned a Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia in 1973 and was a professor at the University of ...
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Learn about the life and work of Sir Paul Nurse, who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discoveries on the cell cycle. Read his biography, from his childhood in London to his research on yeast and cancer at UEA and CRUK.
Sir Paul M. Nurse. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001. Born: 25 January 1949, Norwich, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, United Kingdom. Prize motivation: “for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle”. Prize share: 1/3.
Paul Nurse is a Nobel laureate and a director of the Crick Institute. His lab studies how cells grow and divide using fission yeast, a model organism for understanding cell cycle regulation and its links to human diseases.
Sir Paul Nurse: First of all you’re right, and this is why biomedical research is now becoming increasingly contentious because we now are addressing really critical problems about the nature of a human being, about the nature of identity when a human being begins and finishes, and this moves us really into the realm of religious thoughts and brings in fact scientists increasingly into a challenging position with well established religious thoughts.
