Leroy Hood
Leroy Hood won the
2003 Lemelson-MIT Prize for inventing "four instruments that have unlocked much of the mystery of human biology" by helping decode the
genome. Hood also won the
2002 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology, and the
1987 Lasker Award for Studies of Immune Diversity.
His inventions include:
- automated DNA sequencer
- device to create proteins
- automated tool for synthesizing DNA
Hood co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology.