2008 Pittcon Heritage Award - L. Hood

The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) announced that Dr. Leroy Hood (Co-director of the Nano Systems Biology Cancer Center (NSBCC) and President of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington) received the seventh annual Pittcon Heritage Award. Jointly sponsored by the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon) and CHF, this award recognizes outstanding individuals whose entrepreneurial careers have shaped the instrumentation community, inspired achievement, promoted public understanding of the modern instrumentation sciences, and highlighted the role of analytical chemistry in world economies. Dr. Hood pioneered the techniques that made the rapid pace of the Human Genome Project possible.