Paul L. Modrich

Paul Modrich
Paul L. Modrich in December 2015
Born	Paul Lawrence Modrich (1946-06-13) June 13, 1946 Raton, New Mexico, U.S.
Alma mater	MIT Stanford University (PhD)
Known for	Clarification of cellular resistance to carcinogens Modrich–Lehman unit
Awards	Regeneron Science Talent Search (1964) Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards (1977) Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry (1983) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1993) Charles S. Mott Prize (1996) Pasarow Award (1998) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2015) North Carolina Award (2016) Mendel Lecture (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	DNA mismatch repair
Institutions	Duke University Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Structure, mechanism and biological role of E. coli DNA ligase (1973)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Lehman

Website	scholars.duke.edu/person/modrich

Paul Lawrence Modrich (born June 13, 1946) is an American biochemist, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is known for his research on DNA mismatch repair. Modrich received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015, jointly with Aziz Sancar and Tomas Lindahl.