“It is with deepest gratitude that we recognize the extraordinary accomplishments of Dr. Joachim Messing to the development of genomics and biotechnology, including food security and cancer therapies,” said S. David Kimball, senior vice president for research at Rutgers. “By declining to patent his work, Jo allowed the free exchange of his revolutionary DNA sequencing tools to be spread freely and broadly among the scientific community.”
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