page_title: Leroy Hood
section_title: Awards and honors
hierarchical_section_title: Leroy Hood / Awards and honors
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Leroy Hood, recipient of the 2008 Pittcon Heritage Award, jointly sponsored by the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon) and the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
context_page_description: Leroy "Lee" Edward Hood is an American biologist who has served on the faculties at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Washington.
  Hood has developed ground-breaking scientific instruments which made possible major advances in the biological sciences and the medical sciences. These include
  the first gas phase protein sequencer, for determining the amino acids that make up a given protein;
  a DNA synthesizer, to synthesize short sections of DNA;
  a peptide synthesizer, to combine amino acids into longer peptides and short proteins;
  the first automated DNA sequencer, to identify the order of nucleotides in DNA;
  ink-jet oligonucleotide technology for synthesizing DNA and
  nanostring technology for analyzing single molecules of DNA and RNA.
  The protein sequencer, DNA synthesizer, peptide synthesizer, and DNA sequencer were commercialized through Applied Biosystems, Inc. and the ink-jet technology was commercialized through Agilent Technologies.
  The automated DNA sequencer was an enabling technology for the Human Genome Project.
context_section_description: Leroy Hood is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS, 1982), 
  the National Academy of Engineering (2007),
  and the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine, 2003). 
  He is one of only 15 scientists ever elected to all three national academies. He is also
  a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1982), 
  a member of the American Philosophical Society (2000), 
  a fellow of the American Society for Microbiology, and a charter fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2012).
  He has received 17 honorary degrees from institutions including Johns Hopkins and Yale University.
  In 1987 Hood shared the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research with Philip Leder and Susumu Tonegawa for studies of the mechanism of immune diversity.
  He subsequently was awarded the Dickson Prize in 1988. In 1987, Hood also received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
  He won the 2002 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology for developing automated technologies for analyzing proteins and genes; 
  the 2003 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Innovation and Invention for inventing "four instruments that have unlocked much of the mystery of human biology" by helping decode the genome;
  the 2004 Biotechnology Heritage Award; 
  the 2006 Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy and Employment, for breakthroughs in biomedical science on the genetic level; 
  inclusion in the 2007 Inventors Hall of Fame for the automated DNA sequencer; 
  the 2008 Pittcon Heritage Award for helping to transform the biotechnology industry; and 
  the 2010 Kistler Prize for contributions to genetics that have increased knowledge of the human genome and its relationship to society.
  Leroy Hood won the 2011 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize "for automating DNA sequencing that revolutionized biomedicine and forensic science"; 
  the 2011 National Medal of Science, presented at a White House ceremony by President Obama in early 2013;
  the IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology in 2014, and 
  the 2016 Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
  In 2017 he received the NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society.
caption: Leroy Hood, 2008 Pittcon Heritage Award recipient
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