Paul Blainey Explained

Fields:	genomics
Workplaces:	Broad Institute MIT
Alma Mater:	University of Washington Harvard University
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Paul Blainey is an investigator and core faculty member at the Broad Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, and assistant professor of biological engineering at MIT.^[1] He is recognized for his work in single cell genomics.

Blainey studied mathematics and chemistry as an undergraduate at the University of Washington. He continued his studies in physical chemistry at Harvard University, earning an MS and PhD. He did a postdoc at Stanford University, where he developed high-throughput methods for whole-genome amplification of DNA from individual microbial cells in Dr. Stephen Quake’s laboratory.^[2]

Awards

• Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards at the Scientific Interface, 2011^[3]
• Agilent Early Career Investigator Award, 2014^[4]
• 2017 NIH New Innovator Award^{[5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Paul Blainey, PhD - MIT Department of Biological Engineering. be.mit.edu.
2. Web site: Paul Blainey - Broad Institute. www.broadinstitute.org. 23 November 2015.
3. Web site: 2011 Career Award At The Scientific Interface Recipients Named. May 18, 2011. Russ. Campbell. Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
4. Web site: Agilent Technologies 2014 Early Career Professor Award Supports Biomedical Research at the Broad Institute. May 21, 2014. Agilent.
5. Web site: NIH Director's New Innovator Award Recipients: 2017 Awardees. 26 June 2013. NIH. https://web.archive.org/web/20171005173136/https://commonfund.nih.gov/newinnovator/AwardRecipients. 2017-10-05. live.
6. Web site: Ten researchers from MIT and Broad receive NIH Director's Awards. MIT News.