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Paul L. Modrich (Paul Lawrence Modrich) was born on 13 June, 1946 in Raton, New Mexico, U.S., is an American biochemist and Nobel Laureate (born 1946). Discover Paul L. Modrich's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 13 June, 1946
Birthday 13 June
Birthplace Raton, New Mexico, U.S.
Nationality Mexico

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1946

Paul Lawrence Modrich (born June 13, 1946) is an American biochemist, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

He is known for his research on DNA mismatch repair.

Modrich was born on June 13, 1946, in Raton, New Mexico to Laurence Modrich and Margaret McTurk.

He has a younger brother Dave.

1964

His father was a biology teacher and coach for basketball, football and tennis at Raton High School where he graduated in 1964.

Modrich is of Croatian, Montenegrin, German and Scottish (Gaelic) origin.

1968

Modrich obtained a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968 and subsequently a Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 1973.

1973

He continued his research as a postdoc in the lab of Charles C. Richardson at Harvard Medical School for a year (1973–1974).

1974

Modrich became an assistant professor at the chemistry department of University of California, Berkeley in 1974.

1976

He joined Duke University's faculty in 1976 and has been a Howard Hughes Investigator since 1995.

He works primarily on strand-directed mismatch repair.

His lab demonstrated how DNA mismatch repair serves as a copyeditor to prevent errors from DNA polymerase.

Matthew Meselson previously proposed the existence of recognition of mismatches.

Modrich performed biochemical experiments to study mismatch repair in E. coli.

They later searched for proteins associated with mismatch repair in humans.

Honors and awards received by Modrich include:

Modrich is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.

1980

Modrich married fellow scientist Vickers Burdett in 1980.

2015

Modrich received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015, jointly with Aziz Sancar and Tomas Lindahl.

2019

His paternal grandfather, of Croatian descent, is probably from the small village of Modrići near Zadar, and grandmother of Montenegrin descent, both immigrated to the United States from coastal Croatia in the late 19th century.

His maternal family is of mixed German and Scotch-Irish descent.