Pål Nyrén

Pål Nyrén (born 1955) is a biochemistry professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm.^[1] He is most famous for developing the pyrosequencing method for DNA sequencing.^[2]

Career

• 1999 Professor in Biochemistry, KTH, Stockholm
• 1997 Founder of the company Biotage AB (former Pyrosequencing AB)
• 1988 Associate professor (Docent) Biochemistry, University of Stockholm
• 1985-86 Postdoc at LMB, MRC, Cambridge, G.B. with prof John Walker
• 1985 Ph.D. (Tekn. Doktor) Biochemistry, University of Stockholm (Thesis title: "The proton pumping pyrophosphatase from Rhodospirillum rubrum")
• 1981 M.Sc. (Civ. ing.) Chemical Engineering, KTH, Stockholm

Recognition

• 2013 winner of the European Inventor Award in the SMEs category ^[3] awarded by the European Patent Office

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