Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD
Sarah Graham Kenan Professor
M.D., Istanbul University
Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas

Prof. Aziz Sancar, was born in 1946.

Aziz Sancar, has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Sancar completed his M.D. in İstanbul University of Turkey and completed his Ph.D. on the photoreactivating enzyme of E. coli in 1977. Aziz Sancar is presently the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

He has taken an honorary doctorate from Bilkent University on June 14, 2006.