Phillip Allen Sharp

Phillip Allen Sharp (born June 6, 1944) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered gene 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". Sharp... more

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  • Jun 6, 1944 (age 65 years)

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Year Award Award Winner Winning work Notes/Description
  • 1993
  • "for their discoveries of split genes"
  • 2004
  • 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.
  • 1988
  • For his series of revelations regarding the ability of RNA processing to convert DNA's massive store of genetic data to biological use.
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