Stephen PA Fodor
Stephen Philip Alan Fodor (* 1953 in Seattle , Washington ) is an American geneticist and entrepreneur. He is the founder of the biotechnology company Affymetrix and one of the pioneers of DNA chip technology .
Live and act
Fodor earned a bachelor's degree in biology and a master's degree in biochemistry from Washington State University . In 1985, he earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University. in chemistry . His dissertation was titled Ultraviolet Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of the Nucleic Acids . As a postdoctoral fellow he worked on a grant from the National Institutes of Health at the University of California, Berkeley , from where he was enlisted in 1989 at the Affymax Research Institute in Palo Alto , California . Here it was his task, together with Lubert Stryer and other arrays ( molecular biological examination systems) to miniaturize, which led to the development of microarrays and finally DNA chip technology . To improve the method, Affymax founded the subsidiary Affymetrix in 1993 , whose founder and director was Fodor.
The methods of Fodor and coworkers made large-scale genome analyzes such as the human genome project possible. The numerous applications of the method also include analyzes of the antibiotic resistance genes of microorganisms ( antibiotic resistance ) or the cancer genes of a tumor ( tumor suppressors , oncogenes ).
Awards (selection)
- 1990 Newcomb Cleveland Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- 1998 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine (with Patrick O. Brown )
- 2002 Takeda Foundation Award
- 2002 Economist Innovation Award for Nanotechnology
- 2002 Oxford Bioscience Award
- 2006 European Inventor Award
- 2009 member of the National Academy of Engineering
- 2016 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
literature
- Tim Lenoir, Eric Giannella: The emergence and diffusion of DNA microarray technology . In: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration . tape 1 , no. 1 , August 22, 2006, ISSN 1747-5333 , p. 11 , doi : 10.1186 / 1747-5333-1-11 , PMID 16925816 ( [1] ).
Web links
- Stephen PA Fodor, Ph.D. at Affymetrix (affymetrix.com)
- Stephen PA Fodor at DNA from the Beginning (dnaftb.org)
- Stephen PA Fodor Ph.D. at Bloomberg Businessweek (businessweek.com)
Individual evidence
- ↑ SP Fodor, JL Read, MC Pirrung, L. Stryer , AT Lu, D. Solas: Light-directed, spatially addressable parallel chemical synthesis. In: Science. Volume 251, Number 4995, February 1991, pp. 767-773, ISSN 0036-8075 . PMID 1990438 .
- ^ AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize, 1990. American Association for the Advancement of Science (aaas.org); accessed on January 1, 2014
- ^ Past Winners - Gabbay Award - Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center - Brandeis University. In: brandeis.edu. Retrieved February 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Dr. Stephen PA Fodor at the National Academy of Engineering (nae.edu); accessed on January 1, 2014
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SURNAME | Fodor, Stephen PA |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fodor, Stephen Philip Alan (full name); Fodor, Steve |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geneticist and entrepreneur |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle , Washington |