, Grace-Rupley Professor of , has been selected as the 2018 winner of the American Electrophoresis Society (AES) Lifetime Achievement Award.聽The award will be presented at SciX 2018 in October in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dovichi,聽an affiliated member of and program leader of聽, is best-known for his role in developing and validating high-throughput DNA sequencers which helped enable the Human Genome Project. This contribution led the journal Science in 2001 to name Dovichi as one of the Human Genome Project鈥檚 unsung heroes.
His group, now based in , was also the first to publish separations at the zepto- and yoctomolar levels, enabled by use of capillary electrophoresis coupled with laser-induced fluorescence for the detection of single molecules. Most recently, he has pioneered the study of vertebrate developmental proteomics. Dovichi鈥檚 use of iTRAQ labeling and mass spectrometry led to highly improved identification of sites, and with his collaborators, produced the largest developmental proteomic dataset published for any animal.
Dovichi is the recipient of the 2013 ANACHEM Award, the 2012 RSC Robert Boyle Award, the 2007 Ralph Adams Award, and the 2003 ACS Award in Spectrochemical Analysis. He was also聽named to 聽for his contributions to genomics research.聽He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Canadian Institute of Chemistry. He holds over 15 patents and has published more than 290 peer-reviewed research papers in highly respected journals.
Originally published by at on March 15, 2018.