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Phillip Sharp

Phillip Sharp

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Canada Gairdner Award National Academy of Sciences National Medal of Science Nobel Prize Royal Society

Phillip A. Sharp is Institute Professor at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology. He is a veteran geneticist and molecular biologist most known for his work discovering RNA splicing in human cells. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Richard J. Roberts for this discovery. Before taking a position at MIT in 1974, he studied plasmids at the California Institute of Technology and then gene expression at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory as a post-doctoral fellow. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Sharp has received numerous awards for his research and impactful contributions to molecular biology and genetics, including the National Medal of Science in 2006. Sharp is a member of the National Academy of Science and is a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London.

Talks with this Speaker

When Stockholm Called

We asked 12 Nobel Laureates to tell us their story of when Stockholm called. (Talk recorded in September 2016)

When Stockholm Called
Audience:
  • General Public
  • Student
  • Researcher
  • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
  • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 2:42

RNA Splicing: What is a Gene?

Phillip A. Sharp explains the seminal experiments he performed in the late 1970s that demonstrated the RNA splicing of introns from newly transcribed RNA in human cells. (Talk recorded in July 2014)

Phillip A. Sharp (MIT): RNA Splicing
Audience:
  • General Public
  • Student
  • Researcher
  • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
  • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 16:21

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