Biju Dharmapalan

Jack William Szostak  receiving the Nobel Prize from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2009 (Photo credit: https://www.nobelprize.org)

Jack W. Szostak, FRS, is an English-born American biochemist and geneticist who was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with American molecular biologists Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, for his discoveries concerning the function of telomeres, which play a vital role in determining cell life span. Szostak also investigated the process of chromosomal recombination during cell division and conducted studies into the role of RNA in the evolution of life on early Earth.

Szostak currently serves as a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, Professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, the Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital and as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

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