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Aziz Sancar is a Nobel Prize-winning doctor, academician, biochemist and molecular biologist born in in Savur, Mardin. He graduated from İstanbul Faculty of Medicine in He then went to Dallas and earned a Ph. Born on September 8, in the Savur district of Mardin as the seventh of eight children of a middle-income farmer family, Aziz Sancar completed his basic education in Mardin.

During his high school years, he wanted to be a football player.

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However, he gave up on this dream in his senior year and went to İstanbul to continue his higher education. In an interview, Sancar said that he worked 18 hours a day until the age of 40, and then reduced this to 12 hours a day. In , he enrolled in İstanbul University Faculty of Medicine and graduated from this faculty in with the first place. Aziz Sancar, who returned to Turkey due to the adaptation problems he experienced, went to the University of Texas at Dallas after a while because he wanted to complete his education.

In Dallas, he became involved in the university's molecular biology program. Sancar, with his advisor Claud Stanley Rupert, carried out a study called "photolyase" and discovered the use of a cloned gene in the repair of damaged DNA. With this invention, he received his master's degree and then his doctorate degree in During this period, he began research on nucleotide excision repair.

He completed his thesis as an associate professor in the field of DNA repair. Continuing his studies on DNA repair, cell sequencing, cancer treatment and circadian rhythm, Sancar has published scientific articles and 33 books so far. Sancar received awards for his use of the circadian rhythm in cancer treatment. Sancar, who was awarded the North Carolina Distinguished Chemist Award given by the American Chemical Society in , was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences, one of the most prestigious memberships in the scientific world, in and became the first Turkish scientist to be elected to this academy.