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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.