The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Leroy Hood
Title:
President
Affiliation:
Institute for Systems Biology
401 Terry Avenue North
Seattle,Washington 98109 USA
Gender:
Male
Award Discipline:
Biological Sciences
Award Year:
2011
Citation:
"For pioneering spirit, passion, vision, inventions, and leadership combined with unique cross-disciplinary approaches resulting in entrepreneurial ventures, transformative commercial products, and several new scientific disciplines that have challenged and transformed the fields of biotechnology, genomics, proteomics, personalized medicine, and science education."
President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on February 1, 2013.