John Sulston
John Sulston
Sir John Edward Sulston FRSis a British biologist. For his work on the cell lineage and genome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, he was jointly awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz. As of 2014 he is Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth27 March 1942
biology came caused choice demand obvious science since
When it came to choice of subjects, science was obvious - since I was uninterested in anything else - but a decision that caused consternation in some eyes was my demand to take biology for A-level.
basic human information sequence work
The fact is that proprietary databases don't work for such basic and broadly needed information as the sequence of the human genome.
farmers near
On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.
trust vital
The Wellcome Trust is a hugely important organisation, and it is vital that its fundraising continues unabated.