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Aziz Sancar Nobel Kimya Ödülünü aldı - Aziz Sancar kimdir?

Prof.Dr. Aziz Sancar'dan bugün Türkiye'ye çok güzel haber geldi. 2015 Nobel Kimya ödülünü Türk bilim insanı Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar, Tomas Lindahl ve Paul Modrich aldı. Peki kanser üzerine çalışmalarıyla dünya çapında tanınan Prof. Aziz Sancar kimdir?
Aziz Sancar, Mardin'in Savur İlçesinde, okuma yazma bilmeyen ancak eğitime önem veren sekiz çocuklu bir anne-babanın çocuğu olarak doğdu.İstanbul Tıp Fakültesi'ni bitirdi. Yurtdışında yaptığı çalışmalarla Amerikan Ulusal Bilimler Akademisi'ne kabul edilen üç Türk'ten biri oldu.
Aziz Sancar, HDP milletvekili Mithat Sancar'ın da akrabası. Ağabeyi Tahir Sancar, Mithat Sancar için "Yeğenimiz olur" dedi.
Haberi alınca çok şaşırdığı açıklayan Aziz Sancar ise, telefonla bağlandığı televizyon kanalında, "Bana çok güzel öğretim veren kendi memleketimdir. Bana olağanüstü tıp eğitimi verdi ve o buradaki başarımının kaynağı oldu" diye konuştu.
http://www.milliyet.com.tr/aziz-sancar-nobel-odulunu-ald-gundem-2128354/

Three scientists shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for their work deciphering the mysteries of how cells repair damaged DNA, work that could lead to new therapies for everything from cancer to old age.

Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and U.S.-Turkish national Aziz Sancar will share in the award of roughly $960,000.

"Their systematic work has made a decisive contribution to the understanding of how the living cell functions, as well as providing knowledge about the molecular causes of several hereditary diseases and about mechanisms behind both cancer development and aging," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement.

[Sun damage keeps happening even after you go inside, new study says]

Lindahl, of the Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory in Britain, began with a fundamental question in the late 1960s: "How stable is DNA, really?" He found that DNA decays so rapidly that the frequent changes should be devastating to life. Multiple potentially dangerous breakdowns of the genome happen every day, according to his work. Lindahl discovered base excision repair, a mechanism by which certain proteins work to constantly repair DNA.

"I feel very lucky and privileged," Linahl said Wednesday in an interview posted on the Nobel web site. "It's always nice at the end of your career to have recognition that what you have done is actually important."

Sancar, a dual citizen of Turkey and the United States and a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, focused on the mechanisms by which proteins repair ultraviolet damage, called nucleotide excision repair. His "ability to generate knowledge about the molecular details of the process changed the entire research field," the Nobel committee said Wednesday.

Modrich, a Duke University medical professor and investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, detailed the mechanism behind how cells corrects errors that occur when DNA is replicated during cell division -- a process known as mismatch repair.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/10/07/the-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-shared-by-american-swedish-scientists-for-dna-repair/

http://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2015/oct/07/nobel-prize-for-chemistry-announcement-live

[Nobel Prize in physics goes to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for work on neutrinos]

"The genetic information that governs how human beings are shaped has flowed through our bodies for hundreds of thousands of years," the Nobel committee wrote in its Wednesday statement. "It is constantly subjected to assaults from the environment, yet it remains surprisingly intact. "