Azerbaijan National Academy of Science

Turkish scientist, Professor Aziz Sancar was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair. He was deserved to various of awards for discovery of “circadian clock” in cancer treatment, as well as the "DNA repair" and his studies on topic "cell cycle checkpoints".

Aziz Sancar was born into a lower-middle class family in the Savur district of Mardin Province, southeastern Turkey on September 8, 1946, completed his M.D. in Istanbul University of Turkey and completed his Ph.D. on the photoreactivating enzyme of E. coli in 1977 at the University of Texas at Dallas. Since 1997 operates as an Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His works are cited for 12 thousand times, published 33 books. Aziz Sancar is one of the 3 Turkish origin scientists who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.

Scientist was awarded The US National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award (1984), Award of the American Society of Photobiology (1990), the US National Institute of Health Award (1995), TUBITAK Award (1997), Academy of Arts and Social Sciences Award (2004), Turkish Academy of Sciences Award (2006) and Vehbi Koch Award (2007).

Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences congratulates Professor Aziz Sancar on the occasion of awarding to Nobel Prize in Chemistry and wishes him successes in a fruitful academic activity.

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