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completed his B.S. in Biology and Chemistry at University of Wisconsin
– Stevens Point (1987) and his Ph.D. in biochemistry at Purdue
University (1992) with Dr. P.T. Gilham, studying chemical and enzymatic
synthesis of nucleic acids and nucleic acid analogs. After post
doctoral research with Dr. G. F. Joyce at The Scripps Research Institute
on in vitro evolution methods and catalytic DNA, he joined Yale
University in 1995. Ron is now a tenured Associate Professor in
the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology.
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Selected
Awards and Honors
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2000
Invited Speaker, Pfizer Awards Symposium.
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1998
Packard Fellowship, David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
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1998
Hellman Family Fellowship, Yale University.
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1997
Junior Faculty Fellowship (98-99 academic year), Yale University.
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1997
Arthur Greer Memorial Prize, Yale University.
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1996
Young Investigator Award, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
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