“21st International Turkish World Service Award” from TÜRKSAV to TÜBA Honorary Member Prof. Sancar
TÜBA Honorary Member and 2015 Nobel Prize Winner Prof. Aziz Sancar was awarded the "21st International Turkish World Service Award" by the Turkish World Writers and Artists Foundation (TÜRKSAV).
People, institutions and organizations that won "International Turkish World Service Award" has been given TÜRKSAV for 21 years on the basis of Turkish culture were announced on 3 January.
Prof. Sancar was deservedly awarded for his "national posture on international grounds" after receiving the Nobel Prize. The award ceremony held in Macedonia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and many other countries will be held in May 2017 in Ahlat, Bitlis, Turkey.
Who is Prof. Aziz Sancar?
North Carolina University Biochemistry and Biophysics Department Teaching Staff Member Prof. Aziz Sancar had gained world-wide reputation by signing the discovery of the “Rhythmic Clock” for the treatment of cancer. Sancar, born in 1946 in Mardin, had announced his name with his works on the subjects of “DNA repair” and “cell cycle checkpoints”.
Prof. Aziz Sancar was born in the Savur district of Mardin Province, as the seventh of eight children. It is stated that his parents were illiterate, but they put great emphasis on their children`s education. Sancar, graduated from the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, which he entered in 1963, in 1971, and he went to the US for education. Prof. Sancar, who is working in the University of North Carolina, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, in United States North Carolina-Chapel Hill, from 1997 to today, has signed an unprecedented success in scientific research, with nearly 300 scientific articles he has carried out and more than 12 thousand references made with these articles. Sancar, who got accepted to the American National Academy of Sciences with the studies he has made abroad after graduating from the Medical Faculty of Istanbul, was one of the three Turks that got accepted here.
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2015 Winner Prof. Sancar has been TÜBA member since 2006.