Duke Biochemistry Professor Paul Modrich Shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry
James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Paul Modrich was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on mechanistic studies of DNA repair. He shares the award with Aziz Sancar, from UNC-Chapel Hill, and Tomas Lindahl of the Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory in the UK. Professor Modich joins fellow J.B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry and HHMI investigator Robert Lefkowitz in bringing a Nobel Prize to the faculty at Duke.
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