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WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2015 â€� On behalf of the American Chemical Öйú365betÖÐÎĹÙÍø (ACS), President Diane Grob Schmidt, Ph.D., congratulates today’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Tomas Lindahl, M.D., Ph.D., of Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory (U.K.), Paul Modrich, Ph.D., of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University School of Medicine and Aziz Sancar, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the prize “for having mapped, at a molecular level, how cells repair damaged DNA and safeguard the genetic information.â€�

“The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognizes the critical role chemistry plays in repairing and replicating human DNA, which is the blueprint of life itself,� says Schmidt. “Understanding these processes will help us develop and design therapies to intervene when DNA errors are internally or externally caused. I extend my congratulations to all three of this year’s winners, and I am so proud that Sancar is a 29-year member of ACS.�

Sancar won the Distinguished Lecturer of 2001 award from the ACS North Carolina Section.

All of the winners have published articles in some of ACS� more than 40 peer-reviewed journals. The articles are available from the contacts above.

These papers authored by the researchers are available for free from ACS until November 2:

Tomas Lindahl, Annika Andersson
Biochemistry, 1972, 11 (19), pp 3618�3623; DOI: 10.1021/bi00769a019
Publication Date: September 1972

Tomas Lindahl, Barbro Nyberg
Biochemistry, 1974, 13 (16), pp 3405�3410; DOI: 10.1021/bi00713a035
Publication Date: July 1974

Tomas Lindahl, Barbro Nyberg
Biochemistry, 1972, 11 (19), pp 3610�3618; DOI: 10.1021/bi00769a018
Publication Date: September 1972

Ravi R. Iyer, Anna Pluciennik ,Vickers Burdett ,and Paul L. Modrich
Chem. Rev., 2006, 106 (2), pp 302�323; DOI: 10.1021/cr0404794
Publication Date (Web): December 23, 2005

Paul F. Heelis, Aziz Sancar
Biochemistry, 1986, 25 (25), pp 8163�8166; DOI: 10.1021/bi00373a006
Publication Date: December 1986

Paul F. Heelis, Gillian Payne, Aziz Sancar
Biochemistry, 1987, 26 (15), pp 4634�4640; DOI: 10.1021/bi00389a007
Publication Date: July 1987

Gillian Payne, Paul F. Heelis, Brian R. Rohrs, Aziz Sancar
Biochemistry, 1987, 26 (22), pp 7121�7127; DOI: 10.1021/bi00396a038
Publication Date: November 1987

Gwendolyn B. Sancar, Frances W. Smith, Aziz Sancar
Biochemistry, 1985, 24 (8), pp 1849�1855; DOI: 10.1021/bi00329a007
Publication Date: April 1985

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