Sir Paul Nurse
Trustee
President
The Royal Society
Sir Paul Nurse shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland Hartwell and R. Timothy Hunt for fundamental discoveries concerning control of the cell cycle. He became Rockefeller's ninth president in 2003. He had been chief executive of Cancer Research UK, the world's largest cancer research organization outside the U.S. A Fellow of the Royal Society since 1995, he took up the post of President in 2010.
A geneticist who uses fission yeast as a model system, Sir Paul Nurse was elected a trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2005.
