1. Andrew Zachary Fire was born on April 27,1959 and is an American biologist and professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
10 Facts About Andrew Fire
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Andrew Fire was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C Mello, for the discovery of RNA interference.
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Andrew Z Fire was born in Palo Alto, California and raised in Sunnyvale, California in a Jewish family.
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Andrew Fire then proceeded to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a Ph.
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Andrew Fire became a member of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology group headed by Nobel laureate biologist Sydney Brenner.
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From 1986 to 2003, Andrew Fire was a staff member of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Embryology in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Andrew Fire became an adjunct professor in the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins University in 1989 and joined the Stanford faculty in 2003.
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Andrew Fire is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Andrew Fire serves on the Board of Scientific Counselors and the National Center for Biotechnology, National Institutes of Health.
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Andrew Fire has received the following awards and honors:.