Background
Lindahl was born in Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden to Folke Robert Lindahl and Ethel Hulda Hultberg.
Lindahl was born in Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden to Folke Robert Lindahl and Ethel Hulda Hultberg.
Lindahl was born in Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden to Folke Robert Lindahl and Ethel Hulda Hultberg. He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1967, and an Doctor of Medicine degree qualification in 1970, from the in Stockholm.
In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American chemist Paul L. Modrich and Turkish chemist Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of deoxyribonucleic acid repair. After obtaining his research doctorate, Lindahl did postdoctoral research at Princeton University and Rockefeller University. He was professor of medical chemistry at the University of Gothenburg 1978-1982.
After moving to the United Kingdom he joined the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research United Kingdom) as a researcher in 1981.
From 1986 to 2005 he was the first Director of Cancer Research United Kingdom"s Clare Hall Laboratories in Hertfordshire, since 2015 part of the Francis Crick Institute. He continued to research there until 2009.
He has contributed to many papers on deoxyribonucleic acid repair and the genetics of cancer.
Lindahl received the Royal Society"s Royal Medal in 2007 "making fundamental contributions to our understanding of deoxyribonucleic acid repair. His achievements stand out for their great originality, breadth and lasting influence." He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He was awarded the Copley Medal in 2010. He was elected a founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 1998. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (Federal Reserve System) in 1988, his certificate of election reads: He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015. The Swedish Academy noted that "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar "for mechanistic studies of deoxyribonucleic acid repair".".
Royal Society; Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Academia Europaea.
