Leroy Hood - Definition and Overview

Leroy Hood won the 2003 Lemelson-MIT Prize for inventing "four instruments that have unlocked much of the mystery of human biology" by helping decode the genome. Hood also won the 2002 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology, and the 1987 Lasker Award for Studies of Immune Diversity.

His inventions include:

automated DNA sequencer
device to create proteins
automated tool for synthesizing DNA

Hood co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology.

External link

My Life and Adventures Integrating Biology and Technology (http://www.law.washington.edu/Casrip/classes/O%27Connor/MyLifeandAdventures-KyotoP1%20(Hood).doc) Commemorative lecture given when awarded the 2002 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technologies.
Biography of Leroy Hood (http://www.systemsbiology.org/Default.aspx?pagename=leroyhood) at the website of the Institute for Systems Biology.

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