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Paul Nurse is an English geneticist who discovered the genes that control the cell cycle in yeast and humans. He is also a former president of the Royal Society and the Francis Crick Institute.
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.
Aug 25, 2024 · 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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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.
Sir Paul Nurse is a British biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discoveries of the cell cycle. He is the Director-General of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Jul 15, 2024 · Paul Nurse discusses how a 1971 paper by Culotti and Hartwell inspired him to investigate the cell cycle in fission yeast, and how these genetics studies led to the discovery of...
