Leroy Hood
Leroy Edward Hood ( born October 10, 1938 in Missoula, Montana) is an American physician and biologist.
His services are in particular his work on the automation of DNA sequencing (see automatic sequencing ) and the diversity of possible antibodies of an individual by recombination of genetic information (see V ( D) J recombination).
Life
Hood earned in 1960 at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech ) in Pasadena, California, a bachelor's in biology. In 1964 he completed his studies in medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, with the MD from. 1968 acquired Hood at the California Institute of Technology, a Ph.D. in biochemistry.
1975 Hood was appointed professor of biology at Caltech, in 1980, he took over the management of the local Department of Biology and 1981 in addition to the local Cancer Center ( Cancer Center ). 1989 Hood Director of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Molecular Biotechnology of the National Science Foundation ( NSF), which is operated jointly by Caltech and the University of Washington. In 1992, Hood professor at the University of Washington in Seattle and the management of the local Department of Molecular Biotechnology. Since 1999, Hood directs the Institute for Systems Biology.
Awards (selection)
Writings (selection )
- New protein sequenator with Increased Sensitivity. In: Science. Volume 207, 1980, p 523 ( with M. W. Hunkapiller )
- A Microchemical Facility for the Analysis and Synthesis of Genes and Proteins. In: Nature. Volume 310, 1984, p 105 ( with MW Hunkapiller et al. )
- Fluorescence Detection in Automated DNA Sequence Analysis. In: Nature. Band 321, 1986, pp. 674 ( L. M. Smith et al. )
- A New Strategy for Genome Sequencing. In: Nature. Volume 381, 1996, p 364 ( with J. C. Venter et al. )