Leroy Hood, the pioneer of high-speed gene sequencing machines, has added another big item for his trophy case. Hood has won the Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize, a $500,000 award for bioengineering achievement that is presented by the National Academy of Engineering. Hood has previously received a number of prestigious honors, including the Lasker Award, the Kyoto Prize, and the Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention and Innovation.
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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