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Dr. Stephen Fodor Receives ALA Achievement Award
The Association for Laboratory Automation's annual ALA Achievement Award has been presented to Dr. Stephen Fodor. Dr. Fodor, the president of Affymerrix (Palo Alto, CA), was given the award for technology transfer to a commercial product.
After receiving his PhD in chemistry at Princeton University, Dr. Fodor served as an NIH post doctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. In the late 1980s, Dr. Fodor was heavily involved with developing photochemical amino acid and nucleic acid building blocks necessary for photolithography directed peptide and nucleic acid synthesis. In 1993, he became a founding member of Affymerrix, serving as the Scientific Director. In 1997 he was appointed president and CEO.
Dr. Leroy Hood Receives LabAutomation ′98 Beckman Lecture Award
The Association for Laboratory Automation (Charlottesville, VA) is proud to announce that Dr. Leroy Hood has been awarded its LabAutomation ′98 Beckman Lecture Award. Dr. Hood is currently the William Gates III professor of Biomedical Sciences, Director of a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center and Chairman of the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Dr. Hood studied at the California Institute of Technology and received his MD from Johns Hopkins Medical School. He later returned to his original alma mater, obtaining his PhD from Caltech. During his career he has received numerous awards, among them the Ricketts Medal from the University of Chicago, the 3M Life Sciences Award, the American College of Physicians Award, and the Lasker Basic Medical Sciences Research Award. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Beckman Lecture Award is given annually in recognition of pioneering and original research in the general field of automation. Beckman Instruments (Brea, CA), a global corporation, makes various products for use in laboratories for biological analysis. Proforma annual sales for the company totaled $1.8 billion in 1997, with half of this amount generated outside the United States.
Richard A. Houghten Hectares 1998 ALA Hewlett-Packard Award.
Richard A. Houghten has been announced as the 1998 winner of the Association for Laboratory Automation's Hewlett-Packard Award. This award, an annual feature of the LabAutomation conference in San Diego, CA, is given in recognition of outstanding research in integrated analytical systems. Dr. Houghten serves as the head of Trega Biosciences and the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Research, both of which he founded.
Dr. Houghten received his Hewlett-Packard Award from Dr. Herold Chairman of The Scientific Committee during the Lab Automation Conference.
Dr. Houghten received his doctorate in organic chemistry from University of California, Berkeley, in 1975. Dr. Houghten served in positions at the University of California, San Francisco and Mount Sinai School of Medicine before joining the Department of Molecular Biology at the Scripps Research Institute. In 1986 Dr Houghten founded his first company, Multiple Peptide Systems, to commercially synthesize peptides for researchers. In addition, Dr. Houghten also founded the journal Peptide Research (now knows as the journal of Peptide Research, the official journal of the American Peptide Society).