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Hamilton Smith is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Science and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine (1978) for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics. Dr. Smith holds a doctorate in medicine from the John Hopkins University, together with numerous honorary doctorates. He was Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for thirty-one years. He was associated with the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), and then served as senior director of DNA Resources at Celera Genomics. He is currently the scientific director of the Synthetic biology & Biological Energy Groups at the J. Craig Venter Institute. He is also a co-founder and Co-Chief Scientific Officer of Synthetic Genomics, Inc. based in San Diego, California.
Max Birnstiel holds a doctorate from the University of Zurich, together with numerous honorable doctorates, and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Science. He has also contributed importantly to European science e.g. as chairman of the EMBO Council from 1985 to 1990, and was a founding member of the Academia Europea. He is the founding director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria and previously served as a professor of molecular biology at the University of Zurich.
