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In this video, learn more about Aziz Sancar, the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemisty for 2015.<\/p>\n

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About the same time Michael Jordan was sinking his national championship-winning jump shot in 1982, the groundwork was being laid for a different kind of major accomplishment at Carolina. Among those celebrating the Tar Heels\u2019 triumph that year was Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, newly arrived professor in the UNC School of Medicine, who quickly fell in love with his new university, the Chapel Hill community and Carolina sports.<\/p>\n

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His main focus, of course, was science. His work on DNA repair was so groundbreaking that it earned him the 2015 Nobel Prize<\/a> in Chemistry \u2013 which he will receive in Stockholm, Sweden this week. He\u2019s been a busy man since the announcement, including being honored at sporting events.<\/p>\n

Sancar, whose childhood dream was to become the goalkeeper for the Turkish national soccer team, called his meeting of Carolina\u2019s women\u2019s soccer team one of the happiest moments of his life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love all sports at Carolina, but soccer has been my true love,\u201d Sancar said.<\/p>\n

Here, in this video, learn about Aziz Sancar, the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center \u2014 a look beyond the research that earned him the top honor in science.<\/p>\n\n

Story and video by Rob Holliday, UNC Office of Communications and Public Affairs.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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