Andrew Fire

Quick Facts

Full Name	Andrew Fire
Occupation	Biologist
Date Of Birth	Apr 27, 1959(1959-04-27)
Age	65
Birthplace	Palo Alto
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Taurus

Andrew Fire Biography

Andrew Fire is one of the most popular and richest Biologist who was born on April 27, 1959 in Palo Alto, California, United States.

Andrew Fire was born in Palo Alto, California and raised in Sunnyvale, California. He graduated from Fremont High School. He attended the University of California, Berkeley for his undergraduate degree, 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.

From 1986 to 2003, Fire was a staff member of the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Department of Embryology in Baltimore, Maryland. The initial work on double stranded RNA as a trigger of gene silencing was published while Fire and his group were at the Carnegie Labs. Fire became an adjunct professor in the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins University in 1989 and joined the Stanford faculty in 2003. Throughout his career, Fire has been supported by research grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

Andrew Fire Net Worth

Andrew Fire is one of the richest Biologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Andrew Fire 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

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.

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Andy Ranked on the list of most popular Biologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Andrew Fire celebrates birthday on April 27 of every year.

What did Andrew Fire and Craig Mello?

In 1998, Andrew Fire and Craig Mello discovered through their studies of the roundworm C. elegans a phenomenon dubbed RNA interference. In this phenomenon, double-stranded RNA blocks messenger RNA so that certain genetic information is not converted during protein formation.

Who got Nobel Prize for RNAi?

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Andrew Fire and Craig Mello for their discovery of RNA interference, i.e. the suppression of gene activity by double-stranded RNA.

Who is Fire and Mello?

Mello. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006 was awarded jointly to Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello “for their discovery of RNA interference – gene silencing by double-stranded RNA.”

Why did Fire and Mello win the Nobel Prize?

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2006 jointly to Andrew Fire and Craig Mello for their discovery of RNA interference – gene silencing by double-stranded RNA.

What did Andrew Fire discover?

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 in Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mello, for the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi).