"AAAS is committed to supporting scientific advances that serve society by enhancing human knowledge and public welfare," said Alan I. Leshner, AAAS CEO and Executive Publisher of the Association's journal, Science. "The AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize, supported by Affymetrix, is an important component of those efforts. It's particularly gratifying that this historic award will now receive generous support from a company whose founder was himself a Newcomb Cleveland Prize winner. This demonstrates the effectiveness of the prize in inspiring innovation and promoting engagement in the scientific enterprise."
"We received this coveted award in 1992 for the publication of microarray technology and now are enthusiastic to support its continued legacy," said Stephen P.A. Fodor, Ph.D., Founder, Chairman and CEO of Affymetrix. "It's important to recognize and encourage innovative work by scientists, as these publications will become the foundation for new areas of scientific research and discovery in the future."
Affymetrix Founder Stephen Fodor, Ph.D., Lubert Stryer, M.D., and colleagues were awarded the Newcomb Cleveland Prize in 1992 for a landmark publication containing the first reported description of microarray technology and combinatorial chemistry techniques for the generation of large chemical libraries.(Light-directed, spatially addressable parallel chemical synthesis. Fodor, S.P.A., Read, J., Pirrung, M., Stryer, L., Lu, A., Solas, D. Science 251 (4995), 767-73, 1991.)
The Newcomb Cleveland Prize, AAAS' oldest award, was established in 1923 with funds donated by Newcomb Cleveland, a philanthropist from New York City. Nominations for the annual Newcomb Cleveland Prize must be submitted by June 30, 2003 and published in Science between the first issue of June 2002, and the last issue of May 2003. The work must have appeared originally as a research article or a report. For more information please visit www.aaas.org/about/awards/newcomb.shtml.
"Over the years, the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize, now supported by Affymetrix, has helped to uphold the highest possible standards for scientific integrity and research quality, by rewarding the most innovative research published in Science each year," said Monica Bradford, Science's Executive Editor. "We are grateful to Affymetrix. Their support of the Newcomb Cleveland Prize will recognize a broad array of scientific discoveries. It also serves to uphold the integrity and validate the importance of rigorous peer review and scholarly publication."
About Affymetrix
Affymetrix is a pioneer in creating breakthrough tools that are driving the genomic revolution. By applying the principles of semiconductor technology to the life sciences, Affymetrix develops and commercializes systems that enable scientists to improve the quality of life. The Company's customers include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agrichemical, diagnostics, and consumer products companies, as well as academic, government, and other non-profit research institutes. Affymetrix offers an expanding portfolio of integrated products and services, including its integrated GeneChip(R) brand platform to address the growing markets focused on understanding the relationship between genes and human health. Additional information on Affymetrix may be found at www.affymetrix.com.
About Science
Science, a leading international weekly covering all disciplines, is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific organization. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world.
About AAAS
Founded in 1848, AAAS has worked to advance science for human well-being through its projects, programs, and publications, in the areas of science policy, science education and international scientific cooperation. AAAS and its journal, Science, report nearly 140,000 individual and institutional subscribers, plus 272 affiliated organizations in more than 130 countries, serving a total of 10 million individuals. Thus, AAAS is the world's largest general federation of scientists. Science is an editorially independent, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed weekly that ranks among the world's most prestigious scientific journals. AAAS administers EurekAlert! http://www.eurekalert.org , the online news service, featuring the latest discoveries in science and technology.
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