Pål Nyrén Explained

Pål Nyrén (born 1955) is a biochemistry professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm.^[1] He is most famous for developing the pyrosequencing method for DNA sequencing.^[2] ^[3]

Career

1999 Professor in Biochemistry, KTH, Stockholm
1997 Founder of the company Biotage AB (former Pyrosequencing AB)
1988 Associate professor (Docent) Biochemistry, University of Stockholm
1985-86 Postdoc at LMB, MRC, Cambridge, G.B. with prof John Walker
1985 PhD (Tekn. Doktor) Biochemistry, University of Stockholm (Thesis title: "The proton pumping pyrophosphatase from Rhodospirillum rubrum")
1981 MSc (Civ. ing.) Chemical Engineering, KTH, Stockholm

2013 winner of the European Inventor Award in the SMEs category^[4] awarded by the European Patent Office

Web site: Royal Institute of Technology: Pål Nyrén . 2010-05-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090629050203/http://www.biotech.kth.se/biochem/nyren/ . 29 June 2009 .
Nyren. P.. Pettersson. B.. Uhlen. M.. 1993-01-01. Solid Phase DNA Minisequencing by an Enzymatic Luminometric Inorganic Pyrophosphate Detection Assay. Analytical Biochemistry. 208. 1. 171–175. 10.1006/abio.1993.1024. 8382019. 0003-2697.
Ronaghi. Mostafa. Uhlén. Mathias. Nyrén. Pål. 1998-07-17. A Sequencing Method Based on Real-Time Pyrophosphate. Science. en. 281. 5375. 363–365. 10.1126/science.281.5375.363. 0036-8075. 9705713. 26331871.
http://www.epo.org/learning-events/european-inventor/finalists/2013/nyren/feature.html Invention