Philip C Hanawalt was born on 1931 and is an American biologist who discovered the process of repair replication of damaged DNA in 1963.
17 Facts About Philip Hanawalt
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Philip Hanawalt is considered the co-discoverer of the ubiquitous process of DNA excision repair along with his mentor, Richard Setlow, and Paul Howard-Flanders.
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Philip Hanawalt holds the Dr Morris Herzstein Professorship in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, with a joint appointment in the Dermatology Department in Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Philip C Hanawalt was born on 1931 in Akron, Ohio.
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Philip Hanawalt undertook three years of postdoctoral study at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and at the California Institute of Technology before joining the faculty at Stanford in 1961.
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In 1965 Philip Hanawalt became associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford, and was promoted to professor in 1970.
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Philip Hanawalt has served on the Board of Trustees and is an Honorary Trustee of Oberlin College.
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Philip Hanawalt has received an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from Oberlin and the Doctor Honoris Causa from both the University of Seville, Spain, and the University of the Bio-Bio, Chile.
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Philip Hanawalt was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1989, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.
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Philip Hanawalt is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Microbiology, and he is a Foreign Associate of the European Molecular Biology Organization.
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Philip Hanawalt currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and as a Senior Editor for the journal, Cancer Research.
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Philip Hanawalt has served on the Board of Directors for the American Association for Cancer Research.
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Philip Hanawalt has served on many editorial boards and advisory committees in academia and government.
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Philip Hanawalt won the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Northern California chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1991, and the Peter and Helen Bing Award for Distinguished Teaching at Stanford University.
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Philip Hanawalt has won annual research awards from the American Society for Photobiology and the Environmental Mutagen Society in 1992, from which he received the annual Student Mentoring Award.
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Philip Hanawalt won the International Mutation Research Award for Excellence in Scientific Achievement in 1987, and the Princess Takamatsu Cancer Foundation Annual Lectureship in Japan in 1999 and he was more recently a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University.
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Philip Hanawalt has organized many meetings on DNA repair, including the first international conference in this field, at Squaw Valley, CA, in 1974, and subsequent Gordon Conferences on Mutagenesis and on Mammalian DNA Repair.