The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 gives a public lecture at i3S on 25 May

Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001, will be in Porto to speak about his discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle.

The British biochemist, Sir Paul Nurse, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 (jointly) will be in Porto, on 25 May, at the Health Research and Innovation Institute - I3S - to talk about cell cycle control related to cancer and underlying diseases studied at that institution.

Paul Nurse research enabled to demonstrate how the cell cycle is controlled, by showing that a special gene plays a decisive role in several of the cell cycle's phases. In 1987 he identified a corresponding human gene.

Claudio Sunkel, i3S board member, declared "we are thrilled with this opportunity to share scientific knowledge with such an important researcher as Sir Paul Nurse".

Nurse is the Director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, currently Cancer Research UK. Previously, Nurse taught at the Oxford University and was also Director at the Rockefeller University in New York.

At the end of 2000, Sir Paul Nurse became Director at Francis Crick Institute and was President of the Royal Society between 2010 and 2015.

Besides the Nobel, Paul Nurse has received a number of awards which recognise his work as an eminent geneticist. He is also honorary member of several scientific academies.

This lecture is entrance free and is scheduled to begin at 12 am.