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Phillip Allen Sharp (born June 6, 1944) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing.
Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Phillip A. Sharp. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993. Born: 6 June 1944, Falmouth, KY, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Center for Cancer Research, Cambridge, MA, USA. Prize motivation: “for their discoveries of split genes”
Phillip A. Sharp is a Nobel laureate and a professor emeritus of biology and biochemistry at MIT. He studies gene expression, RNA splicing, and non-coding RNAs in mammalian cells.
Jun 2, 2024 · Phillip A. Sharp is an American molecular biologist, awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Richard J. Roberts, for his independent discovery that individual genes are often interrupted by long sections of DNA that do not encode protein structure.
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Biographical. A sense of place was and remains an important part of my life. I was born in a rural community in the northern hill country of Kentucky. My earliest memories are those of a child playing around the house on our family farm, located in a bend of the Licking River near McKinneysburg.
Oct 11, 1993 · The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute has today decided to award the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to. Richard J. Roberts and Phillip A. Sharp. for their discovery of “split genes”.
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Phillip Sharp is a renowned biologist and co-founder of Biogen and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. He studies RNA regulation, condensate formation, and alternative splicing at MIT and the Koch Institute.
