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Aziz Sancar

Aziz Sancar, Age, Wife, Career

Aziz Sancar was born on 08 September 1946 in Mardin, Southeast Turkey in a lower middle class family. Is a Turkish-American biochemist, circadian clock, molecular biologist specializing in cell cyclecheckpoints, and DNA repair.

Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar and his wife are the co-founder of the Aziz & Gwen Sancar Foundation, that is a non-profit organization to promote Turkish culture and to support Turkish students in the America.

Spouse

Gwen Sancar

Occupation

Biochemistry, Molekuler Biology, DNA repairing, Cancer Researching.

Siblings

Hasan Sancar,

Orhan Sancar,

Kenan Sancar,

Seyran Sancar,

Yıldız Sancar,

Edibe Sancar,

Tahir Sancar.

Doctore

Dallas Texas Univercity

Ethnicity

White, Kurdish

Religion

Islam

Nationality

American, Turkish

Residence

Istanbul, Turkey

United States

Skin Type

Fair Skin

Eye Color

Brown

Hair color

Black

Body type

Slim

Trivia

Work place(s): Yale University Medicine Faculty, North California University Medicine Faculty.

Award(s)

(Aziz Sancar was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with  Paul L. Modrich and Tomas Lindahl for their mechanistic studies of DNA repairing), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.

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