Influences Walter Bodmer Name Tomas Lindahl | Influenced by Walter Bodmer | |
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Nationality Swedish, naturalised British(dual nationality) Institutions Francis Crick InstituteLondon Research InstituteUniversity of GothenburgPrinceton UniversityRockefeller University Alma mater Karolinska Institutet (PhD) Thesis On the structure and stability of nucleic acids in solution (1967) Known for Clarification of cellular resistance to carcinogens Similar People Paul L Modrich, Aziz Sancar, Satoshi Omura | ||
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Tomas Robert Lindahl FRS FMedSci (born 28 January 1938) is a Swedish-born British scientist specialising in cancer research. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American chemist Paul L. Modrich and Turkish chemist Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
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- one teacher even failed me in chemistry tomas lindahl nobel laureate in chemistry 2015
- An interview with tomas lindahl cancer research uk
- Education
- Career and research
- Awards and honours
- References
An interview with tomas lindahl cancer research uk
Education
Lindahl was born in Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden to Folke Robert Lindahl and Ethel Hulda Hultberg. He received a PhD degree in 1967, and an MD degree qualification in 1970, from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
Career and research
After obtaining his research doctorate, Lindahl did postdoctoral research at Princeton University and Rockefeller University. He was professor of medical chemistry at the University of Gothenburg 1978–82. After moving to the United Kingdom he joined the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) as a researcher in 1981. From 1986 to 2005 he was the first Director of Cancer Research UK's Clare Hall Laboratories in Hertfordshire, since 2015 part of the Francis Crick Institute. He continued to research there until 2009. He has contributed to many papers on DNA repair and the genetics of cancer.
Awards and honours
Lindahl was elected an EMBO Member in 1974 and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1988, his certificate of election reads:
Lindahl received the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 2007 "making fundamental contributions to our understanding of DNA repair. His achievements stand out for their great originality, breadth and lasting influence." He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He was awarded the Copley Medal in 2010. He was elected a founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 1998.
He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015. The Swedish Academy noted that "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar 'for mechanistic studies of DNA repair'."
