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Stephen C. West
Stephen C. West
Born (1952-04-11) 11 April 1952 (age 72)
Hull, United Kingdom
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Newcastle upon Tyne
Known forMechanisms of DNA repair
AwardsLouis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2007)
Scientific career
InstitutionsLondon 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.