Eric T. Kool is an American chemist, focusing in chemistry of RNA and DNA; probe design and imaging; synthetic biology, currently the George A. and Hilda M. Daubert Professor in Chemistry at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

and is an Elected Fellow at the

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. He received the

Beckman Young Investigators Award The Beckman Young Investigators Award was established by Mabel and Arnold Beckman in 1991, and is now administered by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program is intended to provide research support to p ...

in 1992. He is the 2019 recipient of the

Murray Goodman Memorial Prize An award recognizing outstanding accomplishments in one or more of the areas of biochemistry, biophysical chemistry, biophysics, or chemical biology. The award is given by the journal ''Biopolymers'', and is named for the journal’s founding edit ...

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