Fred Sanger

Fred Sanger: a memorial tribute.

The first sequence. Fred Sanger and insulin.

FRED Sanger is an amazingly modest man, and his into the Laboratory of Molecular Biology), took me on as a research student. Vernon had just shown that sickleown retrospective, written after he retired, a delightful prefatory chapter for the Annual Reviews of cell hemoglobin differed from normal hemoglobin by a single amino acid substitution, the first characterizaBiochemistry, is called “Seque...

Would Fred Sanger Get Funded Today?

Fred Sanger developed technologies that won him two Nobel Prizes and revolutionized biological research. Yet, in spite of this record, the question has been raised as to whether, in the current scientific climate, he might be unsuccessful in obtaining a grant because of a productivity that would be viewed as too limited. In imagining how a National Institutes of Health study section today might...

Fred Chang

Fred grew up in California and studied biology and played the violin at Princeton as an undergraduate. He obtained an M.D. Ph.D. at UCSF, studying under the wise tutelage of the late Ira Herskowitz. As a graduate student, he played with budding yeast ‘shmoos’ and studied how yeast pheromones arrest the cell cycle. He then went to do postdoctoral stints with Paul Nurse in Oxford and London, and ...

Fred K

Machine Learning, Signal Processing, and Data Analyst Accomplished research scientist with over 5 year of academic experience as well as 4 years of industry experience developing and implementing algorithms for extracting and making sense of different type of data. My expertise goes beyond the usual machine learning topics to include:  logistic regression, Neural Networks, Support Vector Machi...