Phillip Allen Sharp - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	06-June-1944
Place of Birth	Falmouth (Pendleton County, Kentucky, United States of America)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Philip A Sharp
Profession	Biologist
Phillip Allen Sharp is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns, and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways, yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence".

Awards by Phillip Allen Sharp

Check all the awards nominated and won by Phillip Allen Sharp.

2004

National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences	(For his contributions to understanding the biochemical pathway of RNA interference phenomena and for his use of RNA interference techniques to perform genetic analyses in mammalian cells.)

1993

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	(for their discoveries of split genes)

1988

Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research	(For his series of revelations regarding the ability of RNA processing to convert DNA's massive store of genetic data to biological use.)

1986

Gairdner Foundation International Award	(For increasing our understanding of RNA processing and gene expression.)

1980

NAS Award in Molecular Biology	(For his pioneering and continuing contributions to our understanding of messenger RNA biogenesis in mammalian cells.)

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