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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 in 1959. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy and has worked in the fields of genetics and pathology. His professional career includes positions at Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University, where he currently resides and works. He was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford University.
Fire received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with the Canada Gairdner International Award, the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, and the Massry Prize. He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates, Nobel Medicine, and American Academy Arts Sciences collections. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the European Molecular Biology Organization. His doctoral advisor was Phillip Sharp.
He is the author of works including RNA Interference Technology. He speaks English and has an Erdős number of 4.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- RNA Interference Technology
- RNA Interference Technology
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Andrew
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Palo Alto
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- Stanford University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Phillip Sharp
- Field of work
- pathology
- Official website
- profiles.stanford.edu/andrew-fire
- Image
- Vice President Dick Cheney meets with the 2006 U.S. Nobel Laureates, Thursday, November 30, 2006.jpg
- Work location
- Stanford
- Residence
- Stanford
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- Commons category
- Andrew Fire
- date of birth
- 1959-04-27
- Erdős number
- 4
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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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