Leroy
Hood
President
Institute for Systems Biology
2011
Biology
For pioneering spirit, passion, vision, inventions, and leadership combined with unique cross-disciplinary approaches resulting in entrepreneurial ventures, transformative commercial products, and several new scientific disciplines that have challenged and transformed the fields of biotechnology, genomics, proteomics, personalized medicine, and science education.
President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on February 1, 2013.