UNC professor Aziz Sancar went to Stockholm, Sweden to accept the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and give a lecture on his work.
Sancar is the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine.
Aziz Sancar has been at UNC since 1982 and shares the award with Paul Modrich of the Duke University School of Medicine and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Tomas Lindahl of the Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory in Great Britain.
Sancar’s work is related to major repair mechanisms that our bodies use to keep cancer away.
His work has led to new ideas and methods to attack cancer cells.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden. Chemistry was the most important science for Alfred Nobel’s own work. The development of his inventions as well as the industrial processes he employed were based upon chemical knowledge. Chemistry was the second prize area that Nobel mentioned in his will. Aziz Sancar is now one of 171 individuals who have received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry since 1901.
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