By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Aligarh: The announcement of this year’s Nobel prizes in Physics and Chemistry has brought smiles to the prestigious Aligarh Muslim University as well, that has collaborative connections with some of the winners.
Two alumni of AMU have worked as Post-Doctorate fellows with one of the Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry for 2015, Prof. Aziz Sancar.
Prof. Aziz Sancar of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), has won this year’s Nobel along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich for having mapped, at a molecular level, how cells repair damaged DNA and safeguard the genetic information. Their work has provided fundamental knowledge of how a living cell functions and is, for instance, used for the development of new cancer treatments.
Dr Intisar Husain (M.Sc. 1975 AMU, Ph.D. AIIMS 1982) and Dr Sibgaht Ullah Lari (M.Sc. Biochemistry 1976, Ph.D. 1982) had worked with Prof. Sancar at the University of North Carolina from 1986 to 1989.
They also published research papers in peer reviewed academic journals in collaboration with Prof. Sancar.
TwoCircles.net had earlier reported that another alumnus of AMU, Professor Mohammad Sajjad Athar, a Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physicist of the Department of Physics of the University, is a collaborator of Japanese Physicist Takaaki Kajita, one of the Nobel winners in Physics this year.
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