Leroy Hood Author & Editor

A world-renowned biotechnologist, Leroy Hood, MD, established the first academic department devoted to cross-disciplinary biology at the University of Washington and cofounded the Institute for Systems Biology, pioneering a new field of medicine. Hood has played a role in launching fifteen biotechnology companies, including Amgen, Applied Biosystems, and Arivale, and is the coauthor of textbooks in biochemistry, immunology, molecular biology, genetics, and systems biology. The inventor of systems biology, proteomics and P4 medicine, he won the Lasker Award for Studies of Immune Diversity, the Kyoto Prize, the Heinz Award for his work in systems biology, the National Academy of Engineering Fritz J. and Delores H. Russ Prize for developing automated DNA sequencing, the National Academy of Sciences Award for Chemistry in Service to Society, and the National Medal of Science. Dr. Nathan Price is Chief Scientific Officer of Thorne HealthTech, codirector of the Hood-Price Lab for Systems Biomedicine, and Professor at the Institute for Systems Biology. He was named one of the 10 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine by the National Academy of Medicine. He received an NAM Catalyst Award in Healthy Longevity, the Grace A. Goldsmith Award, and is a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. He was appointed to the Board on Life Sciences of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.