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Sulston, John E.
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John Edward Sulston was born in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, England on March 27, 1942. He received a bachelor's degree in natural sciences in 1963 and a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1966 from Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. He was the founding director of the Wellcome Sanger Institute, where he studied genes in worms. He was knighted in 2001. He along with Sydney Brenner and H. Robert Horvitz received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002 for the good data they amassed on the tiny transparent roundworm C. elegans in an effort to better understand how organisms develop. He and Georgina Ferry wrote The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics, and the Human Genome, which was published in 2002. He took a position at the University of Manchester, where he was chairman of the Institute of Science, Ethics and Innovation. He retired in 2016. He died of stomach cancer on March 6, 2018 at the age of 75.
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