Aziz Sancar
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Prof. Aziz Sancar, was born in 1946, in Savur, Turkey.
Turkish scientist specialising in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and the circadian clock. His longest-running study has involved photolyase and the mechanisms of photo-reactivation. In his inaugural article in this issue of PNAS, Sancar captures the elusive photolyase radicals he has chased for nearly 20 years, thus providing direct observation of the photocycle for thymine dimer repair.
Aziz Sancar, has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Sancar completed his M.D. in İstanbul University of Turkey and completed his Ph.D. on the photoreactivating enzyme of E. coli in 1977 in the lab of Dr. C. Stan Rupert, now Professor Emeritus. Aziz Sancar is presently the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is married to Gwen Boles Sancar, who graduated the same year and who is now also on the faculty of UNC Chapel Hill.[1]
He has taken an honorary doctorate from Bilkent University on June 14, 2006.[2]
