Mr Jack Szostak

Jack W. Szostak is a University Professor and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Szostak’s early research on telomere structure and function and the role of telomere maintenance in preventing cellular senescence was recognized by the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dr. Szostak’s current research interests are in the laboratory synthesis of self-replicating systems and the origins of life.