Jack W. Szostak
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Szostak at the 2024 Nobel Prize lectures | |
| Born | Jack William Szostak November 9, 1952 London, England |
| Education | McGill University (BSc) Cornell University (PhD) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biochemistry Genetics Synthetic biology Bioengineering |
| Institutions | University of Chicago (2022) Harvard Medical School Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| Thesis | Specific binding of a synthetic oligonucleotide to the yeast iso-1 cytochrome c̲ mRNA and gene (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ray Wu |
| Notable students | David Bartel Jennifer Doudna Hiroaki Suga Neha Kamat Terry Orr-Weaver |
| Website | voices |
Jack William Szostak FRS (born November 9, 1952) is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent, Nobel Prize laureate, university professor at the University of Chicago, former professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Szostak has made significant contributions to the field of genetics. His achievement helped scientists to map the location of genes in mammals and to develop techniques for manipulating genes. His research findings in this area are also instrumental to the Human Genome Project. 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.