Biography
Sir Paul Maxime Nurse (born 25 January 1949) is an English geneticist , President of the Royal Society and former Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , along with Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt , for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells in the cell cycle . [ 8 ] Nurse's mother went from London to Norwich and lived with relatives while awaiting Paul's birth (at the age of 18) [ 9 ] in order to hide illegitimacy . For the rest of their lives, his maternal grandmother pretended to be his mother, and his mother pretended to be his sister. [ 10 ] Paul was brought up by his grandparents (whom he took to be his parents) in North West London. [ 9 ] He was educated at Lyon Park school in Alperton and Harrow County Grammar School . [ 1 ] He received his BSc degree in Biology in 1970 from the University of Birmingham [ 11 ] and his PhD degree in 1973 from the University of East Anglia for research on Candida utilis . [ 3 ] He then pursued postdoctoral work at the University of Bern , the University of Edinburgh and the University of Sussex . Fields: Genetics, Cell biology, Cell cycle Education: University of Birmingham University of East Anglia
About the Lasker Award
The Lasker Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science or who have performed public service on behalf of medicine. They are administered by the Lasker Foundation, founded by advertising pioneer Albert Lasker and his wife Mary Woodard Lasker (a medical research activist). The awards are sometimes referred to as "America's Nobels."
Quick Facts
- Award: Lasker Award - Basic Medical Research
- Added: 2026-02-07
- Source: Wikipedia
- Established: 1946
- Presented by: Lasker Foundation