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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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. Work.
Nurse lab Cell Cycle Laboratory. Our laboratory works to understand how cells grow and divide. The cell cycle is a complex process involving cell growth, DNA synthesis and mitosis that leads to the division of a single cell into two daughters, a process that is fundamental to all living organisms.
Curriculum Vitae. Sir Paul M. Nurse, born January 25, 1949. Address: Address: Imperial Cancer Research Fund, P.O. Box 123, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK. Academic Education and Appointments. 1970. B.sc., University of Birmingham. 1973.
