Jack W. Szostak - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	09-November-1952
Place of Birth	London (England, United Kingdom, Great Britain)
Nationality	United States of America, Canada
Also know as	Jack Szostak
Profession	Biologist, Professor
Jack William Szostak is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres.

Awards by Jack W. Szostak

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jack W. Szostak.

2009

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	(for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase)

2006

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research	(For the prediction and discovery of telomerase, a remarkable RNA-containing enzyme that synthesizes the ends of chromosomes, protecting them and maintaining the integrity of the genome.)

1994

NAS Award in Molecular Biology	(For independently developing in vitro evolution of RNA catalysts. Their work produced RNA enzymes with novel specificities, while illuminating our view of natural selection.)

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