John Sulston

Sir John Sulston
Born	27 March 1942 Cambridge, England
Died	6 March 2018(2018-03-06) (aged 75)
Nationality	Britain
Alma mater	Cambridge
Known for	Caenorhabditis elegans, Apoptosis
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
Scientific career
Fields	Biology
Institutions	Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, University of Manchester

Sir John Edward Sulston FRS (27 March 1942 – 6 March 2018) was a British biologist. He was a joint winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

He was the first Director of the Wellcome Sanger Institute, and then Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester.^[1][2]

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2000.^[3]

Sulston was one of 20 Nobel laureates who signed the "Stockholm memorandum" at the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability in Stockholm, Sweden on 18 May 2011.^[4]

1. ↑ Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation : iSEI Archived 2012-06-19 at the Wayback Machine
2. ↑ "University of Manchester". Archived from the original on 2012-03-02. Retrieved 2011-04-17.
3. ↑ "John Sulston". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
4. ↑ "Stockholm Memorandum," Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine Nobel-cause.de, 2011