UCSF Professor Wins Heinz Award for DNA Technology
Joseph DeRisi, a UC-San Francisco biochemistry professor, has won a $250,000 Heinz Family Foundation award for his invention of ViroChip, a DNA technology that can detect unknown disease-causing organisms. In addition to his invention, Heinz cited DeRisi's decision to make the details of his invention available at no cost through open access publishing, rather than patenting his technology.
- "UCSF Virus Hunter DeRisi Wins Heinz Award" (San Francisco Chronicle, 9/10).