January 26, 2017
National Academy of Sciences (press release)
NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society
Leroy E. Hood, will receive the 2017 NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society. Hood is a biotech visionary who has revolutionized biology and medicine in a career that spans five decades. Among his many accomplishments, Hood invented, commercialized, and developed multiple chemical tools that address biological complexity, including the automated DNA sequencer which spearheaded the Human Genome Project. ...
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