Media invited today to press conference regarding UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University recipients of 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Chapel Hill, N.C.—October 7, 2015) – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites media representatives to the UNC School of Medicine’s Marsico Hall for a press conference regarding today’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry winners.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that Aziz Sancar, the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine, Paul Modrich, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at Duke University and Tomas Lindahl of the Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory in the UK are the recipients of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
The trio is being honored for having mapped, at a molecular level, how cells repair damaged DNA and safeguard the genetic information. According to the Nobel Foundation, their work has provided fundamental knowledge of how a living cell functions and is, for instance, used for the development of new cancer treatments.
The media availability will be held Wednesday, October 7, at 1:00 p.m. in the lobby of Marsico Hall, located off of Mason Farm Rd.
WHO:
• Aziz Sancar, M.D., Ph.D., Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine
• Chancellor Carol L. Folt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• William L. Roper, M.D., M.P.H., Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Michael B. Kastan, M.D., Ph.D., Executive Director, Duke Cancer Institute, William W. Shingleton Professor, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
• Dr. Richard Brennan, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at Duke University and James B. Duke professor of biochemistry at Duke University
WHEN: Wednesday, October 7, 1:00 p.m. ET
WHERE: Marsico Hall
UNC School of Medicine
125 Mason Farm Road
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Media Check-In: Media must check-in at the media table no earlier than 12:30 p.m. for credentials and parking permits. Jim Gregory will be the on-site contact.
Parking: Parking will be available in the Ambulatory Care Lot located off Mason Farm Road, adjacent to Columbia Street: http://move.unc.edu/parking/visitor-parking/). Upon check-in at the event, media will receive a pre-paid parking permit, which they can then present when exiting the parking lot.
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