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Phillip A. Sharp's work focuses on mechanisms controlling gene expression
in human cells. Both development of the brain and its normal functions
depend upon these processes. In 1993, Sharp received the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that genes contain nonsense segments
that are edited out by cells in the course of utilizing genetic information.
Sharp joined the MIT faculty in 1974 and in 1999 was named Institute
Professor, the highest honor bestowed on a faculty member. From 1991 to
1999, he chaired the Department of Biology and was Director of the Center
for Cancer Research from 1985-1991. In 2000, he was named Founding Director
of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Sharp received his Ph.D.
in 1969 from the University of Illinois at Urbana. He is an elected member
of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American
Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and
an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland.
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