Stanley Fields (biologist)
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Stan Fields | |
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| Born | Stanley Fields |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Known for | Two-hybrid screening |
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| Thesis | Sequence analysis of influenza virus RNA (1981) |
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Stanley Fields is an American biologist best known for developing the yeast two hybrid method for identifying protein–protein interactions.[1] He is currently a professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator,[2][3] and previously served as chair of the Department of Genome Sciences.[4]
Fields was educated at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in 1981 for research carried out in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology with Greg Winter and George Brownlee.[5][6]