Eugene Koonin#
| Membership Number: | 5567 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/groups/koonin/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3943-8299 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1996 - present Senior Investigator, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, N.I.H., Bethesda, MD
- 2002 - 2008 Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
- 2002 - present Adjunct Professor of Bioinformatics, Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University, Boston, MA
- 2010 - present Adjunct Professor, School of Biology, University of Haifa, Israel
- 11/15/1991 - 1996 Visiting Scientist, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, N.I.H., Bethesda, MD
- 02/1991 - 05/1991 Visiting Scientist, Biology Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
- 1990 - 1991 Chief, Laboratory of Gene Systematics and Bacterial Evolution, Institute of Microbiology, USSR Academy of Sciences
- 1989 - 1990 Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory of Bacterial Genetics, Institute of Microbiology, USSR Academy of Sciences
- 1986 - 1988 Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory of Virus Biochemistry, Institute of Poliomyelitis, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences
- 1983 - 1985 Research Scientist, Laboratory of Virus Biochemistry, Institute of Poliomyelitis, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences
Fields of Scholarship
- Microbiology
- Virology
- Bioinformatics
- Comparative genomics
- Evolution of cancer
- Computational biology
- Evolutionary biology
Honours and Awards
- 2019 NIH Distinguished Investigator
- 2019 Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2019 Benjamin Franklin Prize for Open Access in the Life Sciences
- 2018 Georgy Gamow Prize, Russian-American Science Association, for outstanding contributions to evolutionary biology
- 2018 Doctor Honoris Causa, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- 2917 Included among top 10 most influential biomedical researchers by Semantic Scholar
- 2916 NIH Director’s Award
- 2016 Member, National Academy of Sciences of the USA
- 2014 Batsheva de Rotschild Lectureship Award, Israel
- 2013 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2013 Associate Member, European Molecular Biology Organization
- 2012 Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
- 2012 Doctor Honoris Causa, Université Aix-Marseille, France
- 2011 Israel Pollak Distinguished Lecture Award from The Technion (Haifa, Israel)
- 2009 Fellow, Institute of Biology, UK
- 2001 Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics
- 1999 National Library of Medicine Board of Regents’ Award
