Andrew Fire
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| Born | Andrew Zachary Fire April 27, 1959 Palo Alto, California |
| Residence | Stanford, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Biologist |
| Institutions |
Johns Hopkins University Stanford University |
| Alma mater |
University of California, Berkeley Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Phillip Allen Sharp |
| Known for | RNA interference |
| Notable awards | Meyenburg Prize (2002) NAS Award in Molecular Biology (2003) Wiley Prize (2003) Massry Prize (2005) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2006) |
Andrew Zachary Fire (born April 27, 1959) is an American biologist and professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mello, for the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi). This research was conducted at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and published in 1998.
Andrew Fire was born in Palo Alto, California and raised in Sunnyvale, California. He graduated from Fremont High School. The only two colleges to which he applied were Stanford and UC Berkeley. Though he wished to go to Stanford, he was rejected and so attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a B.A. in mathematics in 1978 at the age of 19. He then proceeded to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a Ph.D. in biology in 1983 under the mentorship of Nobel laureate geneticist Phillip Sharp.
Fire moved to Cambridge, England, as a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow. He became a member of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology group headed by Nobel laureate biologist Sydney Brenner.
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