Floyd E. Romesberg
American geneticist
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Floyd E. Romesberg is an American biotechnologist, biochemist, and geneticist formerly at Scripps Research in San Diego, California.[1] He is known for leading the team that created the first Unnatural Base Pair (UBP), thus expanding the genetic alphabet of four letters to six in 2012,[2] the first semi-synthetic organism in 2014,[3][4] and the first functional semi-synthetic organism that can reproduce its genetic material in successive offspring, in 2017.[5]
Floyd E. Romesberg | |
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| Known for | DNA Human genome Metagenomics Synthetic genomics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biochemist, Geneticist |
| Workplaces | Scripps Research |
| Website | Romesberg Lab |
Awards and nominations
- 2015: Nobel Laureate Signature Award[6]
- 2018: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Bioorganic Chemistry Award[7]
