David Klenerman
David Klenerman · Science & Medicine
Chemist who co-invented next-generation DNA sequencing (the technology behind Illumina/Solexa).
1959, London, England
United Kingdom (University of Cambridge)
David Klenerman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Chemist who co-invented next-generation DNA sequencing (the technology behind Illumina/Solexa).
The son of two South African-born Jews, Klenerman grew up in London and became a professor of biophysical chemistry at Cambridge. With Shankar Balasubramanian he invented a fluorescence-based, massively parallel method of reading DNA and co-founded Solexa in 1998 to commercialize it. Now known as Illumina sequencing, this technology slashed the cost of reading a human genome from billions of dollars to a few hundred, powering the genomic revolution in medicine and biology; he was knighted in 2019.
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Chemist who co-invented next-generation DNA sequencing (the technology behind Illumina/Solexa).
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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