Stephen Quake

Stephen R. Quake, 2010

Stephen Ronald Quake (* 1969 ) is an American university professor, inventor and entrepreneur in biotechnology .

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Quake acquired in 1991 at the Stanford University a Bachelor in Physics and a Master in Mathematics and in 1994 at the University of Oxford a Dr. phil. in theoretical physics . He returned to Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow with Steven Chu . In 1996 Quake became a faculty member at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he was eventually given a full professorship in physics and applied physics .

He has held a professorship for bioengineering and applied physics at Stanford University since 2005 . In addition, he conducted research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 2006 to 2016 .

Quake is considered a pioneer of microfluid Large Scale Integration (LSI), a concept for determining multiple parameters from a biological sample in a very small space. Other important achievements are in the fields of protein crystallography , binding of transcription factors , microbiological Ecology (microbial ecology) , genome analysis of individual cells and DNA sequencing of individual molecules.

Quake is one of the founders of Fluidigm , Verinata Health (prenatal diagnostics for Down syndrome from maternal blood), Helicos Biosciences and ImmuMetrix .

Awards (selection)

• 2011 Sackler Prize for Biophysics
• 2012 member of the Institute of Medicine
• 2012 Lemelson-MIT Prize
• 2013 HFSP Nakasone Award
• 2013 member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2013 member of the National Academy of Engineering
• 2014 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2015 Gabbay Award
• 2016 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Convergence Research
• 2016 Max Delbruck Prize of the American Physical Society

• Fellow of the American Physical Society

Web links

• Quakelab and Stephen Quake at Stanford University (stanford.edu)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephen R. Quake, DPhil - HHMI.org. In: hhmi.org. Retrieved November 29, 2016 . 
2. ^ Past Laureates of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics. In: english.tau.ac.il. Retrieved November 29, 2016 . 
3. ^ Stephen Quake - Lemelson-MIT Program. In: lemelson.mit.edu. Retrieved November 29, 2016 . 
4. ↑ 2013 HFSP Nakasone Award goes to Stephen Quake - Human Frontier Science Program. In: hfsp.org. Retrieved November 29, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Stephen Quake. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved November 29, 2016 . 
6. ^ Past Winners - Gabbay Award - Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center - Brandeis University. In: brandeis.edu. Retrieved November 29, 2016 . 
7. ^ Prize Recipient. In: aps.org. Retrieved November 29, 2016 .