JACK W. SZOSTAK

2009 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
    for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.
Background
  • Born: November 9, 1952
  • Place of birth: London, United Kingdom
  • Nationality: Canada
  • Residence: United States
  • Affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital
    • Address:
      Center for Computational and Integrative Biology
      Simches Research Center
      185 Cambridge Street
      Boston, MA 02114
  • Tel: (617) 726-5981
  • Fax: (617) 726-6893
  • E-mail: szostak@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu
  • Education:
    • McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Cell Biology, BS, 1972
    • Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Biochemistry, PhD, 1977
    • Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Biochemistry, Research Associate, 1977-1979
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