It was as a young postdoctoral researcher at Caltech in the 1980s that Ulf Landegren made an invention – a method for distinguishing between different gene variants – that would eventually lead to a series of patents and new companies. Many of his subsequent innovations stem from that original idea, he tells Life Science Focus.
Ulf Landegren: From scientific discovery to successful companies
He is a scientist, inventor and entrepreneur with a string of successful companies to his name. Now, Ulf Landegren, a professor at Uppsala University, is to receive a newly established award – in memory of a kindred spirit.
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