Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar who won Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2015, has significant achievements with his research and discoveries.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar, born in 1946 in Mardin. He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Mardin. He graduated from the Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine at the top of his class. Later he studied Molecular Biology for his Ph.D. at the University of Texas in the USA. He completed his thesis for an associate professorship on DNA repair at Yale University, and later he focused on this field. On the other hand, he worked on cancer treatment and biological clock. He also worked on photolyase enzyme, nucleotide cutting repair, and cell sequencing.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Sancar drew and developed a map of genome repairs he referred to as \u201cMy Piri Reis Map\u201d. Focusing on DNA repair throughout his science life, Sancar developed the MaxiCell technique when he was still a doctoral student. He named the enzyme activity he discovered while employing this technique \u201cexcinuclease \/ excision nuclease\u201d. The enzyme terms were also included in the Oxford Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dictionary.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n He was accepted to the American National Academy of Sciences with his studies abroad and became one of the three Turks accepted to this academy.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n With his research that mapped how cells repair the damaged DNA and preserve the genetic data, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015. Sancar who received the Nobel Prize from the hands of King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf stated the following: \u201cI have received this prize thanks to the education reforms presented by Atat\u00fcrk and the Turkish Republic. So this prize goes to Atat\u00fcrk and An\u0131tkabir Museum that represents the Republic of Turkey.\u201d Soon after this statement, he delivered the Nobel Prize he won, to An\u0131tkabir. Today the prize is displayed at Atat\u00fcrk and Battle of Independence Museum. Sancar was previously deemed worthy of a number of awards, including the USA National Science Foundation Young Researcher Award,\u00a0<\/span><\/i>American Photo-biology Association Award, TUBITAK Science Prize, USA Academy of Science and Social Sciences Award.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Aziz Sancar currently teaches in the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the USA.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n 2015 y\u0131l\u0131nda Nobel Kimya \u00d6d\u00fcl\u00fc’n\u00fc alan Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar’\u0131n ara\u015ft\u0131rmalar\u0131 ve ke\u015fifleri ile birlikte \u00f6nemli ba\u015far\u0131lar\u0131 var.<\/span><\/p>\n 2015 Nobel Kimya \u00d6d\u00fcl\u00fc, 1946 y\u0131l\u0131nda Mardin’de do\u011fan Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar’a verildi. \u0130lk, orta ve lise \u00f6\u011frenimini Mardin’de tamamlad\u0131. \u0130stanbul \u00dcniversitesi T\u0131p Fak\u00fcltesi’nden s\u0131n\u0131f birincisi olarak mezun oldu. Daha sonra ABD’deki Texas \u00dcniversitesi’nde doktoras\u0131 i\u00e7in Molek\u00fcler Biyoloji okudu. Yale \u00dcniversitesi’nde DNA onar\u0131m\u0131 do\u00e7entli\u011fi tezini tamamlad\u0131 ve daha sonra bu alana odakland\u0131. \u00d6te yandan kanser tedavisi ve biyolojik saat \u00fczerinde \u00e7al\u0131\u015ft\u0131. Ayr\u0131ca fotoliyaz enzimi, n\u00fckleotid kesme onar\u0131m\u0131 ve h\u00fccre dizilimi \u00fczerinde \u00e7al\u0131\u015ft\u0131.<\/span><\/p>\n Sancar, \u201cBenim Piri Reis Haritam\u201d olarak adland\u0131rd\u0131\u011f\u0131 bir genom onar\u0131m haritas\u0131 \u00e7izdi ve geli\u015ftirdi. Bilim ya\u015fam\u0131 boyunca DNA onar\u0131m\u0131na odaklanan Sancar, halen doktora \u00f6\u011frencisi iken MaxiCell tekni\u011fini geli\u015ftirdi. Bu tekni\u011fi kullan\u0131rken ke\u015ffetti\u011fi enzim aktivitesini \u201ceksin\u00fckleaz \/ eksizyon n\u00fckleaz\u201d olarak adland\u0131rd\u0131. Enzim terimleri Oxford Biyokimya ve Molek\u00fcler Biyoloji S\u00f6zl\u00fc\u011f\u00fc’ne de dahil edildi.<\/span><\/p>\n Yurtd\u0131\u015f\u0131nda yapt\u0131\u011f\u0131 \u00e7al\u0131\u015fmalarla Amerikan Ulusal Bilimler Akademisi’ne kabul edildi ve bu akademiye kabul edilen \u00fc\u00e7 T\u00fcrkten biri oldu.<\/span><\/p>\n H\u00fccrelerin hasarl\u0131 DNA’y\u0131 nas\u0131l onard\u0131\u011f\u0131n\u0131 ve genetik verileri nas\u0131l korudu\u011funu g\u00f6steren ara\u015ft\u0131rmas\u0131yla 2015 y\u0131l\u0131nda Nobel Kimya \u00d6d\u00fcl\u00fc’n\u00fc kazand\u0131. \u0130sve\u00e7 Kral\u0131 Carl XVI Gustaf’\u0131n elinden Nobel \u00d6d\u00fcl\u00fc’n\u00fc alan Sancar \u015funlar\u0131 s\u00f6yledi: ”Bu \u00f6d\u00fcl\u00fc Atat\u00fcrk ve T\u00fcrkiye Cumhuriyeti taraf\u0131ndan sunulan e\u011fitim reformlar\u0131 sayesinde ald\u0131m. B\u00f6ylece bu \u00f6d\u00fcl T\u00fcrkiye Cumhuriyeti’ni temsil eden Atat\u00fcrk ve An\u0131tkabir M\u00fczesi’ne gidiyor.\u201d Bu a\u00e7\u0131klamadan k\u0131sa s\u00fcre sonra kazand\u0131\u011f\u0131 Nobel \u00d6d\u00fcl\u00fcn\u00fc An\u0131tkabir’e verdi. Bug\u00fcn \u00f6d\u00fcl Atat\u00fcrk ve Kurtulu\u015f Sava\u015f\u0131 M\u00fczesinde sergilenmektedir. Sancar daha \u00f6nce ABD Ulusal Bilim Vakf\u0131 Gen\u00e7 Ara\u015ft\u0131rmac\u0131 \u00d6d\u00fcl\u00fc, Amerikan Foto-Biyoloji Derne\u011fi \u00d6d\u00fcl\u00fc, T\u00dcB\u0130TAK Bilim \u00d6d\u00fcl\u00fc, ABD Bilim ve Sosyal Bilimler Akademisi \u00d6d\u00fcl\u00fc gibi bir dizi \u00f6d\u00fcle lay\u0131k g\u00f6r\u00fclm\u00fc\u015ft\u00fc.<\/span><\/p>\n Aziz Sancar \u015fu anda ABD’de Chapel Hill’deki North Carolina \u00dcniversitesi Biyokimya ve Biyofizik B\u00f6l\u00fcm\u00fc’nde ders vermektedir.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Bu yaz\u0131lar da ilginizi \u00e7ekebilir:<\/p>\nAziz Sancar T\u00fcrk\u00e7e Biyografi<\/h2>\n