David Botstein

David Botstein ( born September 8, 1942 in Zurich, Switzerland ) is an American geneticist. He is one of the masterminds of genetics.

Life

Botstein was educated at Harvard, the University of Michigan, and later became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1990, Botstein to Stanford. Together with Patrick O. Brown, he examined here yeast and tumor cells by DNA chip. Since 2003, Botstein is engaged in Princeton.

Botstein dealt in particular with the application of genetic methods to understand biological functions. A concern of his was the sequencing of the human genome. For his work, he has received several awards, among other things, the Rosenstiel Award, the Albany Medical Center Prize, the Dickson Prize in Science, the Gruber Prize for Genetics, the Genetics Society of America Medal, the William Allan Award, the Eli Lilly and Company research Award and the Dan David Prize. In 1997, Botstein President of the Genetics Society of America.

In 2013 he was one of the first winners of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.

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