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This post was updated at 1:36 p.m. Less than half a century after its founding, UT Dallas can now say it has a Nobel Prize winner in its ranks of alumni. Aziz Sancar, a 1977 molecular and cell biology ...

The News & Observer recognizes North Carolina residents who have made significant contributions in the last year and beyond. These people have made a difference in our region, state and elsewhere.

Aziz Sancar grew up as a farm boy in a small town in Turkey. He was a bright child and attended medical school. He returned to his hometown and practiced medicine for a few years. But even in his ...

Yesterday the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Tomas Lindahl, Aziz Sancar, and Paul Modrich for their work in mapping out how cells repair damaged DNA. Their ...

Dr. Aziz Sancar spent his life researching how damaged cells and DNA heal. Now, he’s the newest Nobel laureate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. SciTech Now is available to stream on ...

Meet Dr. Aziz Sancar, UNC Chapel Hill’s newest Nobel laureate. The body has a way to heal itself. So do cells and DNA. Dr. Aziz Sancar spent his life researching that topic and now is UNC Chapel ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- Two Nobel Prize medals are now on display in Chapel Hill. UNC's Dr. Aziz Sancar earned the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2015. Dr. Oliver Smithies earned the Nobel Prize in ...

Aziz Sancar is a co-winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry and a distinguished professor in biochemistry and biophysics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, ...

The Aziz and Gwen Sancar Foundation is set to launch a new housing development in 2025 — the Sancar Scholars Residence — for Turkish students in the Triangle area. Sancar said the purpose of the ...

Sancar’s former UTD colleagues say he worked late into the night at the lab and in the library while he was earning his Ph.D.(UT Dallas) Sancar’s former UTD colleagues say he worked late into the ...