Sir Paul Nurse, Ph.D.

President of The Rockefeller University

Professor, Laboratory of Yeast Genetics and Cell Biology

2001 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Education:
(B.Sc.) – University of Birmingham (Biological Sciences), 1970
(Ph.D.) – University of East Anglia (Cell Biology/Biochemistry), 1973

Paul Nurse is President of Rockefeller University, New York and previously served as Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK.  He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and has received the Albert Lasker Award and the Royal Society’s Royal and Copley Medals.  Later this year he becomes President of the Royal Society and Director-designate of a new biomedical research institute in London.

He is a geneticist and cell biologist who has worked with the fission yeast to understand how the eukaryotic cell cycle is controlled and how cell shape and cell dimensions are determined.  His major work has been on the cyclin dependent protein kinases and how they regulate onset of S-phase and mitosis and ensure there is only one S-phase each cell cycle.