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Who is Aziz Sancar?

  • A Turkish architect

  • An American historian

  • A Turkish-American molecular biologist

  • A Swiss chemist

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Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American molecular biologist and professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015 for his work on the mechanistic understanding of DNA repair. Sancar's research has focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of DNA repair, specifically the mechanisms by which cells repair damage to their DNA.
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