Paul Nurse
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Sir Paul Nurse | |
|---|---|
 Paul Nurse | |
| Born | 25 January 1949 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Birmingham University of East Anglia |
| Known for | Cell cycle regulation |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 Copley Medal in 2005 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Genetics/cell biology |
Sir Paul Nurse PRS (Paul Maxime Nurse, born Norwich, 25 January 1949) is a British geneticist and cell biologist.[2][3]
He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with Leland Hartwell and Timothy Hunt, for their discoveries about cell division.
They discovered cycle of cell division is regulated by cyclin and cyclin dependent kinases.[4]
Sir Paul is the current President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation.
He is also Emeritus Professor and Head of the Laboratory for Yeast genetics and Cell Biology at the Rockefeller University, New York City.[5]
Nurse was awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 2005.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "I gradually slipped away from religion over several years and became an atheist or to be more philosophically correct, a sceptical agnostic." autobiography at Nobelprize.org
- ↑ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 Illustrated Lecture
- ↑ Nurse, Paul 2004. The great ideas of biology. The Romanes Lecture for 2003, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-951897-1
- ↑ Cyclins are a family of proteins that control the way cells go through the cell cycle by activating cyclin-dependent kinase enzymes. Galderisi U, Jori FP, Giordano A (2003). "Cell cycle regulation and neural differentiation". Oncogene 22 (33): 5208–19. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1206558. PMID 12910258.
- ↑ Rockefeller University: Sir Paul Nurse
