Nurse, Paul

Sir Paul Nurse, Ph.D., is President of Rockefeller University, founded in 1901 as the USA's first biomedical research institution. He was formerly Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK, the world's largest cancer research organization outside the USA. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize for Medicine
with Leland H. Hartwell and R. Timothy Hunt for advancing scientific understanding about the biological process by which cells make copies of themselves both in health and in diseases such as cancer. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991 and was knighted for his services to cancer
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