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Stephen C. West | |
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Born | Hull, United Kingdom | 11 April 1952
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Alma mater | University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
Known for | Mechanisms of DNA repair |
Awards | Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2007) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | London Research Institute |
Dr Stephen Craig West, FRS (born 11 April 1952 at North Ferriby, near Hull, Yorkshire) is a British biochemist and molecular biologist specializing in research on recombination and DNA repair. He is known for pioneering studies on homologous recombination, and for defining the links between recombinational repair and genome instability diseases including cancer. He currently works at the London Research Institute’s laboratories at Clare Hall in South Mimms, Hertfordshire.