Awards honoring the team of colleagues with whom I have been privileged to work.
2005: Scientific American 50 (Designing artificial life)
2006: Scientific American 50 ($1000 genome)
2006: Fast Company - Fast 50 (PGP)
2007: Newsweek Ten hottest Nerds
2008 Top 100 Stories Discover Magazine : #9 (PGP)
2008 Top 10 Innovations The Scientist : #1, #4 (Polonator & SOLiD)
2008 Time Invention of the year #1 ("The retail DNA test")
2008 Newsweek, Global Elite : The Power of Ideas (PGP)
2008 Technology Pioneer Awards at Davos World Economic Forum (LS9 & 23andme)
2009 Miami Winter Symposium Special Achievement Award
2009 American Society for Microbiology Promega Biotechnology Research Award
2010 Consumer Genetics Champion & Public Initiative Awards
2010 US Presidential & EPA Green Chemistry Award (LS9)
2010 Triennial International Steven Hoogendijk Award
2011 Personalized Medicine World Conference Lifetime Achievement Award
2011 Franklin Institute Bower Prize for Achievement in Science
2011 USA National Academy of Sciences (Section 14: Chemistry)
2012 USA National Academy of Engineering (Section: Bioengineering)
2012 The Scientist's Top 10 Innovations #1 (BioFab : Gen9)
2012 BBC World changing experiments #1 ("Building a machine that can edit human DNA")
2012 New Scientist Top 10 science books (Regenesis)