In 2015, he was awarded
the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
for mechanistic studies
of DNA repair.
Education
Lindahl was born
in Kungsholmen, Stockholm, S
weden 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
Stockholm.
After obtaining his research
doctorate, Lindahl
did postdoctoral research at
Princeton 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 researc