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Lubert Stryer, M.D. is a 2007 recipient of the National Medal of Science. He is Winzer Professor, Emeritus, in the School of Medicine and Professor of Neurobiology, Emeritus, at Stanford University. As part of his research, Dr. Stryer discovered the light-triggered amplification cycle in vision and developed new fluorescence techniques for studying biomolecules and cells. Dr. Stryer is the author of Biochemistry, a widely-used textbook, now in its sixth edition. As the first President and Scientific Director of the Affymax Research Institute, he was a co-inventor of the light-activated parallel chemical synthesis technology. His other honors include election to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of arts and Sciences, and receipt of the American Chemical Society Award in Biological Chemistry, the Newcomb-Cleveland Prize, the Distinguished Inventors Award of the Intellectual Property Owners' Association, an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Chicago, and the Molecular Bioanalytics Award of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Dr. Stryer also serves as a scientific advisor of Affymetrix, Inc. and Perlegen Sciences, Inc.
In July 1999, Dr. Stryer took a full-time leave of absence from his professorship at Stanford University to found Senomyx and serve as the Company's initial Chairman of our Board of Directors and Chief Scientific Officer. In May 2001, Dr. Stryer returned to his professorship at Stanford University, although he maintains an active role at Senomyx as Chairman of our Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Stryer received his B.S. from the University of Chicago and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. | 