Walter Gilbert

Walter Gilbert is Chairman of the Board of Directors and Co-Founder of Paratek Pharmaceuticals. A well-known molecular biologist, he is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard University. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of DNA sequencing. Dr. Gilbert has had a long track record of experience in the biotechnology industry. He was a co-founder and CEO of Biogen, Inc.; more recently, he was a co-found... more

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  • Mar 21, 1932 (age 77 years)

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  • Walter Gilbert, Ph.D.,
  • Dr. Walter Gilbert,
  • Walter Phd Gilbert

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Year Award Award Winner Notes/Description
  • 1980
  • * "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids"
  • 1979
  • For their brilliant development of a new technique for the rapid sequencing of DNA
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Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a privately held biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Boston, MA, which is engaged in the discovery and commercialization of new therapeutics that treat life threatening infectious and other serious diseases.
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