Leroy Hood. 2011 National Medal of Science to Leroy Hood, Institute for Systems Biology.

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Leroy Hood, president of the Institute for Systems Biology, predicts "enormous numbers of genomes" will be completed over the next decade or so.

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The lineup of speakers will include molecular biology pioneer Leroy Hood, co-founder of 23andMe Anne Wojcicki, scientific revolutionary and provocateur Eric Schadt, health insurance data analytics innovator Tina Brown-Stevenson, and founding CEO of Sun Microsystems Vinod Khosla, to name a few.

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And perhaps the Karolinska could spare a thought for Leroy Hood, who invented the sequencing technique that made the whole thing possible though that work might, more properly, fall within the purview of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, which decides the winners of the chemistry (and also the physics) prizes.

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