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John Sulston
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British biologist and Nobel laureate (1942–2018)
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John E. Sulston was born on March 27, 1942, and died on March 6, 2018. He was recognized in the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, and the Nobel Medicine collection.
Sulston received one Nobel Prize. His Erdős number is 3.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2002
“for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death”
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Official website
Sulston, John
Professor John Sulston was director of the Wellcome Sanger Institute - then called the Sanger Centre - from 1992 to 2000. His own research was chiefly on the genome of Caenorhabditis elegans, but he also contributed to the human genome project and some other projects. He continued to work in these areas until 2003. John served on the Human Genetics Commission from 2000 to 2009. He also chaired the steering group for the Wellcome Trust meetings and courses programme at Hinxton. John died in 2018.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edward
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Cambridge
- Place of death
- Fulmer
- Occupation
- physician
- Employer
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- genomics
- Official website
- www.sanger.ac.uk/people/faculty/honorary-faculty/john-sulston
- Image
- John Sulston (2008).jpg
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- member of
- Academia Europaea
- Erdős number
- 3
- Commons category
- John E. Sulston
- date of birth
- 1942-03-27
- name in native language
- John Edward Sulston
- date of death
- 2018-03-06
- interested in
- biology
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir John Edward Sulston CH FRS MAE (27 March 1942 – 6 March 2018) was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans in 2002 with his colleagues Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He was a leader in human genome research and Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester. Sulston was in favour of science in the public interest, such as free public access of scientific information and against the patenting of genes and the privatisation of genetic technologies.
Early life and education
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