11 Facts About Joseph DeRisi

Joseph Lyman DeRisi is an American biochemist, specializing in molecular biology, parasitology, genomics, virology, and computational biology.

Joseph DeRisi is a co-president of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco with a joint appointment at the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences .

Joseph DeRisi is a former Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

Joseph DeRisi uses microarrays extensively in his work, and has designed and built both hardware and software for microarrays.

Joseph DeRisi is a proponent of open access to microarray technology, and maintains a website with software and protocols for microarray operations.

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Joseph DeRisi is a proponent of open access publishing, and has publications in the Public Library of Science journals.

Joseph DeRisi has de-bunked the relation of viruses to certain subsets of human cancer.

In 2004 DeRisi was named a MacArthur fellow, in 2008 was awarded the 14th Annual Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy, and Employment, in 2013 was elected as a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences and to the Academy of the American Society of Microbiology, and in 2014 he received the John J Carty Award for the Advancement of Science from the National Academy of Sciences.

Joseph DeRisi was involved in the development of the ViroChip, which is used to rapidly identify viruses in bodily fluids.

Joseph DeRisi has been involved in the development of an online platform called IDseq, backed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, which is used to identify viruses from metagenomic sequencing data.

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Joseph DeRisi led a team that turned an empty lab space adjacent to the CZ Biohub into a CLIA-certified COVID-19 testing facility in eight days.