Pål Nyrén (born 1955) is a

biochemistry Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology ...

professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. He is most famous for developing the

pyrosequencing Pyrosequencing is a method of DNA sequencing (determining the order of nucleotides in DNA) based on the "sequencing by synthesis" principle, in which the sequencing is performed by detecting the nucleotide incorporated by a DNA polymerase. Pyrose ...

method for DNA sequencing.

Career

*1999 Professor in Biochemistry, KTH, Stockholm *1997 Founder of the company Biotage AB (former

Pyrosequencing Pyrosequencing is a method of DNA sequencing (determining the order of nucleotides in DNA) based on the "sequencing by synthesis" principle, in which the sequencing is performed by detecting the nucleotide incorporated by a DNA polymerase. Pyrose ...

AB) *1988 Associate

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professor ...

(Docent) Biochemistry, University of Stockholm *1985-86 Postdoc at LMB, MRC, Cambridge, G.B. with prof John Walker *1985

PhD PHD or PhD may refer to: * Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification Entertainment * '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series * ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic * Ph.D. (band), a 1980s British group ** Ph.D. (Ph.D. albu ...

(Tekn. Doktor) Biochemistry, University of Stockholm (Thesis title: "The proton pumping pyrophosphatase from ''Rhodospirillum rubrum''") *1981

MSc MSC may refer to: Computers * Message Sequence Chart * Microelectronics Support Centre of UK Rutherford Appleton Laboratory * MIDI Show Control * MSC Malaysia (formerly known as Multimedia Super Corridor) * USB mass storage device class (USB MSC ...

(Civ. ing.) Chemical Engineering, KTH, Stockholm

Recognition

*2013 winner of the

European Inventor Award The European Inventor Award(formerly European Inventor of the Year Award, renamed in 2010), are presented annually by the European Patent Office, sometimes supported by the respective Presidency of the Council of the European Union and by the Eu ...

in the SMEs categoryInvention

awarded by the European Patent Office

References

1955 births Living people Swedish chemists KTH Royal Institute of Technology faculty KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni Stockholm University alumni {{Sweden-scientist-stub