Robi Mitra, the Alvin Goldfarb Distinguished Professor of Computational Biology in the Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship for developing new genomic technologies that have allowed dramatic reductions in the cost of DNA sequencing.
The award was presented at the Office of Technology Management’s annual Celebration of Inventors, which also honored the successes in innovation from WashU faculty from the previous calendar year.
WashU has jumped 11 places to 26th on the National Academy of Inventors‘ list of the top 100 U.S. universities granted U.S. utility patents. WashU as a whole was awarded 82 U.S. patents last year.
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