Andrew Z. Fire
American biologist and professor of pathology and genetics
Stanford Medicine
Stanford, CA
Andrew Zachary Fire 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). This research was conducted at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and published in 1998.
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Andrew Zachary Fire 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). This research was conducted at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and published in 1998.
Affiliation
Stanford Medicine
Top Publications
- Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans (1998) - 15,602 citations
- Specific interference by ingested dsRNA (1998) - 1,968 citations
- Ingestion of bacterially expressed dsRNAs can produce specific and potent genetic interference in Caenorhabditis elegans (2001) - 1,906 citations
- Genes and Mechanisms Related to RNA Interference Regulate Expression of the Small Temporal RNAs that Control C. elegans Developmental Timing (2001) - 1,898 citations
- The rde-1 Gene, RNA Interference, and Transposon Silencing in C. elegans (1999) - 1,328 citations
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- Full name
- Andrew Z. Fire
- Born
- 1959-04-27
- ORCID
- 0000-0001-6217-8312
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5057231025
Research interests
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation, RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
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- 15,602OpenAlex citations
- Specific interference by ingested dsRNA ↗1998 · Nature1,968OpenAlex citations
- 1,906OpenAlex citations
- 1,898OpenAlex citations
- 1,328OpenAlex citations
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- Specific interference by ingested dsRNA ↗1998 · Nature
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Awards & honors
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2006) — for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA
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