Renowned Turkish scientist Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar, who has a Nobel Chemistry Prize, came together with Girne American University (GAU) US Coordinator Philip Anderson.

GAU US Coordinator Philip Anderson, who was at the convoke given by the Ambassador of Sweden Bjorn Lyrvall in the honor of Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar, while expressing that a Turkish scientists receiving the Nobel Prize creates satisfaction, stated that; "I hope the continuation of this success comes in the future."

GAU US Coordinator Anderson, invited Nobel Prize-winning Turkish scientist Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar to Girne American University.

Anderson said to Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar that; "We want you to know that seeing you in our main campus in Cyprus, will make us very happy, including GAU USA campus."

WHO IS AZIZ SANCAR?

North Carolina University Biochemistry and Biophysics Department Teaching Staff Member Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar had gained world-wide reputation by signing the discovery of the `Rhythmic Clock` for the  treatment of cancer. Sancar, born in 1946 in Mardin, had announced his name with his works on the subjects of `DNA repair` and `cell cycle checkpoints`.

Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar was born in the Savur district of Mardin Province, as the seventh of eight children. It is stated that his parents were illiterate, but they put great emphasis on their children`s education. Sancar, graduated from the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, which he entered in 1963, in 1971, and he went to the US for education. Prof. Sancar, who is working in the University of North Carolina, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, in United States North Carolina-Chapel Hill, from 1997 to today, has signed an unprecedented success in scientific research, with nearly 300 scientific articles he has carried out and more than 12 thousand references made with these articles. Sancar, who got accepted to the American National Academy of Sciences with the studies he has made abroad after graduating from the Medical Faculty of Istanbul, was one of the three Turks that got accepted here.