Sir John Edward Sulston was a British biologist and academic who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, shared with his colleagues Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He was a leader in human genome research and Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester.
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A direct working relationship, not merely the shared 2002 prize already wired from Brenner to each of them separately: Sulston's own lead names Horvitz his "colleague... at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology", the two working alongside each other on the same C. elegans research programme.
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Shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death; Brenner's own lead states only the shared prize, no separate joint project named with Sulston specifically.
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Sir John Edward Sulston (27 March 1942-6 March 2018) was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans in 2002 with his colleagues Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He was a leader in human genome research and Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester.
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27 March 1942
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6 March 2018
Associated With: H. Robert Horvitz, Lead section, John Sulston
was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans in 2002 with his colleagues Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
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In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston.
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