The 2015 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony took place at Stockholm Concert Hall on Thursday, 10 December, 2015
Videos
Speech for the Chemistry Prize
Granting of the Chemistry Prize
Dr. Modrich's Nobel Lecture in Chemistry
On Wednesday, October 7, 2015, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Paul Modrich, PhD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at Duke University; Tomas Lindahl of the Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory in the UK; and Aziz Sancar of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, are the recipients of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
Dr. Modrich, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry, joined Duke in 1976. He is a James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry and a member of the Duke Cancer Institute.