Nobel laureate Paul Berg

Paul Berg, the Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor of Cancer Research, Emeritus, and director emeritus of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine; at Stanford 1959-present. Awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in chemistry "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant DNA." The other half of the award went to Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids."

Since receiving the prize, Berg has continued to conduct research in the Department of Biochemistry, where his focus is the mechanism of repairing DNA damage. He continues to influence federal policy regarding stem cell research, biotechnology and human cloning.

• The Nobel prize: 100 years of honoring achievement
  
  
• Berg's faculty profile
  
  
• Berg's research
  
  
• VIDEO:Paul Berg comments on Jim Clark's opposition to President Bush's stem cell policy (Stanford Report, 11/5/01)
  
  
• Discoveries in genetics: Some Stanford -- and other -- contributions (Stanford Today, 11/96)

Nobel website:

• 1980 Prize in Chemistry
  
  
• Berg's Curriculum Vitae