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Leroy Hood

Leroy Hood won the 2003 Lemelson-MIT Prize for inventing "four instruments that have unlocked much of the mystery of human biology" by helping decode the genome. Hood also won the 2002 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology[?], and the 1987 Lasker Award for Studies of Immune Diversity[?].

His inventions include:

Hood co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology[?].



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