Tomas lindahl biography
Tomas Robert Lindahl (born 28 January ) is a Swedish-British scientist specialising in cancer research.
Tomas Robert Lindahl is a Swedish scientist specialising in DNA damage and repair..
Tomas Lindahl
Tomas Robert LindahlFRSFMedSci (born 28 January 1938) is a Swedish scientist specialising in cancer research.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American chemist Paul Modrich and Turkish chemist Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.[8][9]
Lindahl was professor of medical chemistry at the University of Gothenburg 1978-82.
He moved to England and joined the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) as a researcher in 1981.[10] From 1986 he was the first Director of Cancer Research UK's Clare Hall research institute in Hertfordshire.
Since 2015 this has been part of the Francis Crick Institute.[11]
When the Royal Society elected him as a Fellow, his achievements were extraordinary (though rather technical):