Dr. Sir Paul Nurse

2001 Nobel Laureate for Medicine at the Francis Crick Institute in London/UK

Sir Paul Nurse’s research on the regulation of cell reproduction is fundamental to understanding growth and development and vital to cancer research.

Biography:

Dr. Sir Paul Nurse is a geneticist and cell biologist who was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on how the eukaryotic cell cycle is controlled. His research on the cyclin dependent protein kinases and how they regulate cell reproduction is fundamental to understanding growth and development and vital to cancer research. Dr. Nurse is the Director of the Francis Crick Institute in London and the Chancellor of the University of Bristol. He has served as President of the Royal Society, Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK and President of the Rockefeller University. He received the Albert Lasker Award, the Gairdner Award, the Louis Jeantet Prize and the Royal Society’s Royal and Copley Medals. He was knighted and awarded the Order of Merit for services to science and medicine in the UK and abroad, receiving the Legion d’honneur in 2003 from France and the Order of the Rising Sun in 2018 from Japan. He served for 15 years on the UK Council of Science and Technology, advising the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and was a Chief Scientific Advisor for the European Union. In 2020 he wrote “What is Life” which has been published in 22 countries.

Topic of keynote speech:

• What is life?

Schedule:

Wednesday, February 11, 2026:

14:00 Keynote speech and dialogue at Academia Sinica in Taipei

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