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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - Distinguished Fellows of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI)
  • 2014 - IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology “For pioneering contributions to DNA sequencing technologies that revolutionized life and health sciences.”
  • 2012 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2011 - US President's National Medal of Science "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.
  • 2007 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For the invention and commercialization of key instruments, notably the automated DNA sequencer, that have enabled the biotechnology revolution.
  • 2003 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2002 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 1989 - Promega Biotechnology Research Award, American Society for Microbiology
  • 1987 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1982 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1982 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Leroy Hood is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research encompasses fields primarily focused on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant number of publications in each area. Their subfields include Molecular Biology, Physiology, Genetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, as well as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics related to health and biology. These topics include diet and metabolism studies, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, gut microbiota and health, bioinformatics and genomic networks, health environment and cognitive aging, adipose tissue and metabolism, and nutrition, genetics, and disease.

Frequent publication venues for Leroy Hood include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Communications Biology, SSRN Electronic Journal, Nature Metabolism, and Molecular Psychiatry.

Co-authors collaborating most often with the scientist are:

  • Nathan D. Price
  • Andrew T. Magis
  • Noa Rappaport
  • Jennifer Hadlock
  • Priyanka Baloni

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Leroy Hood include:

  • Multiple early factors anticipate post-acute COVID-19 sequelae, 2022, Cell
  • Multi-Omics Resolves a Sharp Disease-State Shift between Mild and Moderate COVID-19, 2020, Cell
  • Gut microbiome pattern reflects healthy ageing and predicts survival in humans, 2021, Nature Metabolism
  • Integrated analysis of plasma and single immune cells uncovers metabolic changes in individuals with COVID-19, 2021, Nature Biotechnology
  • Multiomic signatures of body mass index identify heterogeneous health phenotypes and responses to a lifestyle intervention, 2023, Nature Medicine

Leroy Hood has also contributed to book publications, notably with "The Age of Scientific Wellness" published by Harvard University Press in 2023.

The recognition received by Leroy Hood includes several awards and honors across decades. These include:

  • Distinguished Fellows of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI), 2020
  • IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology, 2014, awarded for pioneering contributions to DNA sequencing technologies
  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2012
  • US President's National Medal of Science, 2011, awarded for pioneering spirit, inventions, and leadership impacting biotechnology and personalized medicine
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2007, for invention and commercialization of instruments vital to biotechnology
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine, 2003
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, 2002
  • Promega Biotechnology Research Award, American Society for Microbiology, 1989
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1987
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1982
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1982
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Best Publications

  • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

    Eric S. Lander;Lauren M. Linton;Bruce Birren;Chad Nusbaum

  • A distinct lineage of CD4 T cells regulates tissue inflammation by producing interleukin 17

    Heon Park;Zhaoxia Li;Xuexian O. Yang;Seon Hee Chang

  • Integration of biological networks and gene expression data using Cytoscape

    Melissa S Cline;Michael Smoot;Ethan Cerami;Allan Kuchinsky

  • Fluorescence detection in automated DNA sequence analysis

    Lloyd M. Smith;Jane Z. Sanders;Robert J. Kaiser;Peter Hughes

  • Integrated genomic and proteomic analyses of a systematically perturbed metabolic network.

    Trey Ideker;Vesteinn Thorsson;Jeffrey A. Ranish;Rowan Christmas

  • A gas-liquid solid phase peptide and protein sequenator.

    Rodney M. Hewick;Michael W. Hunkapiller;Leroy E. Hood;William J. Dreyer

  • Direct multiplexed measurement of gene expression with color-coded probe pairs.

    Gary K Geiss;Roger E Bumgarner;Brian Birditt;Timothy Dahl

  • A NEW APPROACH TO DECODING LIFE: Systems Biology

    Trey Ideker;Timothy Galitski;Leroy Hood

  • Simian sarcoma virus onc gene, v-sis, is derived from the gene (or genes) encoding a platelet-derived growth factor

    Russell F. Doolittle;Michael W. Hunkapiller;Leroy E. Hood;Sushilkumar G. Devare

  • A cellular gene encodes scrapie PrP 27-30 protein

    Bruno Oesch;Bruno Oesch;David Westaway;Monika Wälchli;Monika Wälchli;Michael P. McKinley

  • Whole-Genome Shotgun Assembly and Analysis of the Genome of Fugu rubripes

    Samuel Aparicio;Jarrod Chapman;Elia Stupka;Nik Putnam

  • A Genomic Regulatory Network for Development

    Eric H. Davidson;Jonathan P. Rast;Paola Oliveri;Andrew Ransick

  • A ligase-mediated gene detection technique

    Ulf Landegren;Robert Kaiser;Jane Sanders;Leroy Hood

  • Complete sequence and gene map of a human major histocompatibility complex

    S Beck;D Geraghty;H Inoko;L Rowen

  • Systems Biology and New Technologies Enable Predictive and Preventative Medicine

    Leroy Hood;James R. Heath;James R. Heath;Michael E. Phelps;Biaoyang Lin

  • The evolution of vertebrate Toll-like receptors

    Jared C. Roach;Gustavo Glusman;Lee Rowen;Amardeep Kaur

  • Alagille syndrome is caused by mutations in human Jagged1, which encodes a ligand for Notch1

    Linheng Li;Ian D. Krantz;Yu Deng;Yu Deng;Anna Genin

  • Dynorphin-(1-13), an extraordinarily potent opioid peptide

    Avram Goldstein;S. Tachibana;L. I. Lowney;M. Hunkapiller

  • Circulating microRNAs, potential biomarkers for drug-induced liver injury

    Kai Wang;Shile Zhang;Bruz Marzolf;Pamela Troisch

  • Direct multiplexed measurement of gene expression with color-coded probe pairs (vol 26, pg 317, 2008)

    GK Geiss;RE Bumgarner;B Birditt;T Dahl

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathan D. Price
Nathan D. Price University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael W. Hunkapiller
Michael W. Hunkapiller Pacific Biosciences (United States)
Gwênlyn Glusman
Gwênlyn Glusman Institute for Systems Biology
Lee Rowen
Lee Rowen Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle
Stephen B. H. Kent
Stephen B. H. Kent University of Chicago
Janet L. Stanford
Janet L. Stanford Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Ben F. Koop
Ben F. Koop University of Victoria
Lloyd M. Smith
Lloyd M. Smith University of Wisconsin–Madison
David J. Galas
David J. Galas Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute

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