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Andrew Fire
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American biologist
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Andrew Fire is an American biologist, geneticist, physician, and physicist born in Palo Alto on April 27, 1959. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree and has been educated at the University of California, Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford University. His doctoral advisor was Phillip Sharp. Fire works in the fields of genetics and pathology, residing and working in Stanford.
He has been employed by Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University. Fire is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the European Molecular Biology Organization. His notable works include "RNA Interference Technology." He has received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Canada Gairdner International Award, the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, and the Massry Prize.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- RNA Interference Technology
- RNA Interference Technology
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1969
Discography
- Earth, Wind & Fire1971
- The Need of Love1971
- Last Days and Time1972
- Head to the Sky1973
- Open Our Eyes1974
- Spirit1976
- All ’n All1977
- I Am1979
- Faces1980
- Raise!1981
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 62,950x
- Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 45,735x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,586x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,896x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,494x
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2006
“for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA”
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Encyclopedic overview
Andrew Zachary Fire (born April 27, 1959) 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 (RNAi). This research was conducted at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and published in 1998.
Biography
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