Endogenous DNA Damage and Repair Enzymes : —A short summary of the scientific achievements of Tomas Lindahl, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2015

Tomas Lindahl completed his medical studies at Karolinska Institute in 1970. Yet, his work has always been dedicated to unraveling fundamental mechanisms of DNA decay and DNA repair. His research is characterized with groundbreaking discoveries on the instability of our genome, the identification of novel DNA repair activities, the characterization of DNA repair pathways, and the association to diseases, throughout his 40 years of scientific career.