Tomas Lindahl

Tomas Lindahl
Tomas Lindahl at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2015)
Born	Tomas Robert Lindahl (1938-01-28) 28 January 1938 (age 79) , Sweden
Nationality	Swedish, naturalised British (dual nationality)
Fields	Cancer research DNA repair
Institutions	Francis Crick Institute London Research Institute University of Gothenburg Princeton University Rockefeller University
Alma mater	Karolinska Institutet (PhD)
Thesis	On the structure and stability of nucleic acids in solution (1967)
Known for	Clarification of cellular resistance to carcinogens
Influences	Walter Bodmer
Notable awards	EMBO Membership (1974) FRS (1988) FMedSci (1998) Royal Medal (2007) Copley Medal (2010) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2015)
Website crick.ac.uk/research/a-z-researchers/emeritus-scientists/tomas-lindahl/

Tomas Robert Lindahl FRSFMedSci (born 28 January 1938) is a Swedish-born British scientist specialising in cancer research. 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 DNA repair.

Lindahl was born in Kungsholmen, , Sweden to Folke Robert Lindahl and Ethel Hulda Hultberg. He received a PhD degree in 1967, and an MD degree qualification in 1970, from the Karolinska Institutet in .

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 1978–82. After moving to the United Kingdom he joined the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) as a researcher in 1981. From 1986 to 2005 he was the first Director of Cancer Research UK'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 DNA repair and the genetics of cancer.