Tomas Lindahl#
| Membership Number: | 377 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://crick.ac.uk/research/a-z-researchers/emeritus-scientists/tomas-lindahl |
Present and Previous Positions
- Emeritus Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute
- 1986 to 2005 Director of the Clare Hall Laboratories
- 1981 Researcher at Imperial Cancer Research Fund(Cancer Research UK), London, UK
- 1970 Doctor of Medicine at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm,Sweden
- 1967 PhD at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm,Sweden
Fields of Scholarship
- Cancer research
- Cellular resistance to carcinogens
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Nobel Prize
in Chemistry "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair" (jointly awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar)
- 2010 Copley Medal
- 2009 INSERM Prix Etranger
- 2007 Royal Society's Royal Medal
- Member of Academia Europea
- Member of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
