Health Policy Speaker Series Presents Sir Paul Nurse
Sir Paul Nurse is a geneticist and cell biologist who has worked out, using yeast as a model organism, 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 the cell cycle. He is President of the Royal Society and Director of the Francis Crick Institute in London and has served as Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK and President of Rockefeller University (New York City) 2003-2011. In 2001 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and has received the Albert Lasker Award, the Gairdner Award and the Royal Society’s Royal and Copley Medals. Sir Paul was knighted in 1999 and received the Legion d’honneur in 2003.
The Francis Crick Institute is a consortium of six of the UK’s most successful scientific and academic organisations, including the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, the Wellcome Trust, University College London, Imperial College London and King’s College London. Sir Paul, as Director and Chief Executive, is responsible for implementing its scientific vision and research strategy.
Learn more about Sir Paul Nurse in his interview with acclaimed journalist Dan Rather.