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Paul Nurse
Identifying genes that control cell division.
Cell-cycle control · Nobel Prize
- Born
- 25 January 1949
- Birthplace
- Norwich
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Paul Nurse
Paul Nurse is a British geneticist who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries about the cell cycle.
Early life
Education
Grew up in north-west London, studied biology at Birmingham and completed a doctorate at East Anglia in 1973.
Career
- 1973–1979
Edinburgh research
Studied fission yeast in Murdoch Mitchison’s laboratory.
- 1976
Cell-cycle gene
Identified the importance of cdc2.
- 1987
Human counterpart
With Melanie Lee, identified the corresponding human gene.
- 2003
Rockefeller
Became president of Rockefeller University.
- 2011
Crick Institute
Became the founding director of the developing institute.
Contributions
Cell-cycle control
Identified genetic controls governing when cells divide.
Nobel Prize
Shared the medicine prize with Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt.
Beyond research
Family
Married Anne Talbott in 1971; they have two daughters.
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