Mitra Honored with Prestigious Innovation Award

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Mitra Honored with Prestigious Innovation Award — Robi Mitra (left) has been honored with the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at WashU. The accolade acknowledges the advancements he created to enhance the efficiency and decrease the expenses of genomic screening technologies. Provost Beverly Wendland presented the prize during the eighth annual Celebration of Inventors organized by the Office of Technology Management on April 24. (Photo: Tina McGrath/WashU Medicine)

Robi Mitra, the Alvin Goldfarb Distinguished Professor of Computational Biology in the Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship for creating novel genomic technologies that have facilitated significant reductions in the cost of DNA sequencing.

The accolade was awarded during the Office of Technology Management’s annual Celebration of Inventors, which also celebrated the achievements in innovation from WashU faculty during the previous calendar year.

WashU has ascended 11 positions to 26th on the National Academy of Inventors list of the top 100 U.S. universities granted U.S. utility patents. Overall, WashU was granted 82 U.S. patents last year.

Discover further details on the WashU Medicine website.

The article Mitra receives innovation award was first published on The Source.

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