The 2015 Nobel prize in Chemistry has been awarded to the discoverers of DNA repairs.
Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar were named as the winners yesterday morning at a news conference in Stockholm, Sweden.
Their work uncovered the mechanisms used by cells to repair damaged DNA – a fundamental process in living cells and important in cancer.
Prof Lindahl is Swedish, but has worked in the UK for more than three decades.
The prize money of eight million Swedish kronor (£634,000; $970,000) will be shared among the winners.
“It was a surprise. I know that over the years I’ve occasionally been considered for a prize, but so have hundreds of other people. I feel lucky and proud to be selected today,” Lindahl, from the UK’s Francis Crick Institute, told reporters.
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Claes Gustafsson, from the Nobel Committee, said the recipients had “explained the processes at the molecular level that guard the integrity of our genomes”.
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