Phillip Allen Sharp

Biography

Phillip Allen Sharp (born June 6, 1944) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing . He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns , and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways, yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] He was awarded the 2015 Othmer Gold Medal . [ 8 ] Sharp's current research focuses on small RNAs and other types of non-coding RNAs . His laboratory works to identify the target mRNAs of microRNAs (miRNAs), and has discovered a class of miRNAs that are produced from sequences adjacent to transcription start sites. His laboratory also studies how miRNA gene regulation functions in angiogenesis and cellular stress. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Sharp was born in Falmouth, Kentucky , the son of Kathrin (Colvin) and Joseph Walter Sharp. [ 13 ] He married Ann Holcombe in 1964, and they have three daughters. [ 14 ] Fields: Biologist Education: Union Commonwealth University BA University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign PhD

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

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