European Inventors of the Year 2006
Filed in archive Meetings and Other Events , Other Biotechnology News , Patents and Intellectual Property Rights on May 24, 2006
The European Patent Office and the European Commission held the European Inventors of the Year 2006 earlier this month in Brussels. Among the awardees in the field of Biotechnology are:
- Zbigniew Janowicz and Cornelis Hollenberg, who invented a method for making proteins in Hansenula yeast, which is used to produce an affordable vaccine against Hepatitis B
- Stephen P.A. Fodor, Michael C. Pirrung, J. Leighton Read and Lubert Stryer for their invention of the DNA chip or microarray technology, the basis on which the biotech company, Affymetrix, was founded
- John Starrett, Joanne Bronson, John Martin, Muzammil Mansuri and David Tortolani, whose work resulted in a breakthrough with chemical compouonds, called prodrugs of phosphonates, and
- Larry Gold and Craig Tuerk, who found out that nucleic acids can bind a protein to potentially intercept other proteins that cause diseases like AMD.
EU Commissioner Verheugen expressed his hope that one day "the European Inventor of the Year will have the same prestige as the Nobel Prize". IF you're interested to see the other nominees in various categories, click here.

Permalink: European Inventors of the Year 2006
Tags: inventor patent biotech year european european+inventors inventors+year other+events
Vote for European Inventors of the Year 2006:
|
Rating: 7.83 out of 6 vote(s) cast.
|
Most Popular
Best of
Biotech Hubs and Facilities
Biotech/Science Blogs
Corporate and Industrial News
Diagnostics, Methodologies and Instrumentation
Did you know
Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
Energy, Environment and Ecology
Food and Agriculture
Gene Therapy
Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
Information About
Meetings and Other Events
Microbiology
Misc
Nanomedicine
Other Biotechnology News
Patents and Intellectual Property Rights
Quick introduction
Stem Cells
