
Andrew Fire
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 65 |
Date of birth | April 27,1959 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Born | Palo Alto |
California | |
United States | |
Field | Biologist |
Residence | Stanford |
California | |
United States | |
Academic advisor | Phillip Allen Sharp |
Job | Professor |
Biologist | |
Education | University of California, Berkeley |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
Fremont High School | |
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Gairdner Foundation International Award | |
Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize | |
NAS Award in Molecular Biology | |
Massry Prize | |
Meyenburg Prize | |
Official site | profiles.stanford.edu |
Known for | RNA interference |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 461323 |
Andrew Fire Life story
Andrew Zachary Fire is an American biologist and professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mello, for the discovery of RNA interference.