Phillip Sharp

American geneticist and molecular biologist

Phillip Allen Sharp (born June 6, 1944) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns, and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways, yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence".²

From Wikipedia’s article on Phillip Sharp (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Jun 6, 1944.¹

About

He was awarded the 2015 Othmer Gold Medal.

Sharp's current research focuses on small RNAs and other types of non-coding RNAs. His laboratory works to identify the target mRNAs of microRNAs (miRNAs), and has discovered a class of miRNAs that are produced from sequences adjacent to transcription start sites. His laboratory also studies how miRNA gene regulation functions in angiogenesis and cellular stress.

From Wikipedia’s article on Phillip Sharp, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

BiogenFounder¹⁹

Early life and education

Date not recordedUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign³
Date not recordedUnion Commonwealth University³

Career

Occupation: chemist, biochemist, molecular biologist, university teacher, geneticist.⁶

Date not recordedWorked at California Institute of Technology⁴
Date not recordedWorked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology⁴
Date not recordedFounded Biogen⁵

Personal life

BornJun 6, 1944, Falmouth⁷
CitizenshipUnited States⁸

Awards

2020AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research^{9 18}
2015Othmer Gold Medal^{9 17}
2011Foreign Member of the Royal Society⁹
2004National Medal of Science⁹
1993Mendel Medal^{9 15}
1993Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine^{9 16}
1991Dickson Prize in Medicine⁹
1988Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research^{9 14}
1988Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize^{9 13}
1986Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize^{9 12}

More awards (4)

1986Canada Gairdner International Award⁹
1985Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize^{9 11}
1980NAS Award in Molecular Biology^{9 10}
Date not recordedWinthrop-Sears Medal⁹

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