Jack W. Szostak Scientist

Jack William Szostak (born November 9, 1952) is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres.

Personal facts

Jack W. Szostak
Birth dateNovember 09, 1952
Birth place
London , United Kingdom
Citizenship
Canada
Residence
United States
Education
Cornell University
McGill University

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Scientist

awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Lasker Award
doctoral advisor
Ray Wu
Field of study
Biology
notable student
Jennifer Doudna
David Bartel
Andrew Murray
Terry Orr-Weaver

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Jack W. Szostak on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://ccib.mgh.harvard.edu/vitas/SzostakCV.pdf
  2. http://genetics.mgh.harvard.edu/szostakweb
  3. http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1218
  4. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/press.html
  5. http://search.proquest.com/docview/302853024
  6. http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/szostak_bio.html
  7. http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/bbs/fac/szostak.html
  8. http://www.ibiology.org/ibioseminars/evolution-ecology/jack-szostak-part-1.html