| Date of Birth | 30-October-1939 | |
| Place of Birth |
Los Angeles (Southern California, Los Angeles County, United States of America, California) |
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| Nationality | United States of America | |
| Also know as | Leland Hartwell | |
| Profession | Scientist | |
| Leland Harrison Hartwell is former president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and R. Timothy Hunt, for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells. Working in yeast, Hartwell identified the fundamental role of checkpoints in cell cycle control, and CDC genes such as CDC28, which controls the start of the cycle -- the progression through G1. | ||
Awards by Leland H. Hartwell |
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