Phillip Allen Sharp (born June 6, 1944) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing.

[16] Later, he studied gene expression in human cells at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory as a senior scientist under James D.

[18][19] Sharp co-founded Biogen, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, and Magen Biosciences, and has served on the boards of all three companies.

[20] In addition to the Nobel Prize, Sharp has won several notable awards, including the 2004 National Medal of Science,[21] the 1999 Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the American Philosophical Society,[22] the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1981,[23] and the 1988 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Thomas R.

He is the subject of the 2025 documentary film "Cracking the Code:Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution" directed by Bill Haney.

[15] In 2016, Sharp helped organize[38][39] the Laureates Letter Supporting Precision Agriculture, written to oppose efforts by Greenpeace to ban GMOs and Golden Rice in particular.