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| The Development and Promotion of DNA Microarrays |
| Technical Achievement: |
The development of DNA microarrays with pre-synthesized DNA probes and
the promotion of the technology by releasing the production methods on
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| Patrick O. Brown |
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| 1976 B.A. in Chemistry from University of Chicago |
| 1980 Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Chicago |
| 1982 M.D. from the University of Chicago |
| 1988 Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and of Biochemistry at Stanford
University, and Assistant Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| 1995 Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University |
| 1997 Associate Investigator, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| 2000-present Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University |
| 2002 Investigator, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
Honors:
| 1998 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine for the development
of microarray methods for the analysis of gene expression on a genome-wide
scale (with Stephen P.A. Fodor) |
| 2000 National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology for his intellectual
leadership in functional genomics, most notably the development of a reliable
and accessible DNA microarray system to measure genome-wide gene expression |
| 2001 Millennium Award for Genomics Research in Clinical Immunology |
| 2002 Discover Magazine Award for Innovation |
| He is honored with many other awards. |
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