Zickler Lecture 1994
Zickler Lecture - 1994
DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES
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THE SIXTH ANNUAL ZICKLER LECTURE
LEROY E. HOOD, MD, PhD
Professor and Chairman
Analysis of the Human and Mouse LOCI:
Thursday, December 8, 1994 |
About
the Speaker
Leroy Hood was born October 10, 1938 in Missoula , Montana . After graduating from the California Institute of Technology, he attended medical school at Johns Hopkins University where he received his MD degree in 1964. Dr. Hood subsequently received a PhD in Biochemistry from the California Institute of Technology where he was a member of the Biology Faculty from 1970 to 1992. Currently, Dr. Hood is the William Gates III Professor of Molecular Biotechnology, Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Molecular Biotechnology, and Chairman of the Department of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle .
Dr. Hood's research interests focus on the study of molecular immunology and biotechnology. His laboratory has played a major role in developing automated microchemical instrumentation that permits sequence analysis of proteins and DNA as well as the synthesis of peptides and gene fragments. Most recently, he has applied his laboratory's expertise in large-scale DNA mapping and sequencing to the analysis of human and mouse T-cell receptor loci. This represents important efforts of the Human Genome Project and the genomic analysis of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Dr. Hood's laboratory is also interested in the study of autoimmune diseases and new approaches to cancer biology.
Dr. Hood is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association of Arts and Sciences. He holds honorary degrees from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine (1987), Montana State University (1986), the University of British Columbia (1988), the University of Southern California (1989), Johns Hopkins University (1990), and Wesleyan University (1992). In 1987, Dr. Hood received the Louis Pasteur Award for Medical Innovation and the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for studies of immune diversity. In 1989, he was given the Commonwealth Award of Distinguished Service for work in developing instruments used to study modern biology and medicine and the Cetus Award for Biotechnology. In 1990, Dr. Hood received the American College of Physicians Award for distinguished contributions in science as related to medicine. Most recently, Dr. Hood received the 1993 Ciba-Geigy/Drew Award in Biomedical Research from Drew Univerksity and the 1994 Lynen Medal of the Miami Biotechnology Symposium.