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Roger Tsien, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Howard Hughes Investigator at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Tsien designed many highly informative fluorescent reporters of signaling and gene expression in live cells and has creatively used them to elucidate fundamental mechanisms of calcium signaling and synaptic plasticity. These fluorescent probes make possible a wide range of high-throughput screening assays and explorations of cell function. Dr. Tsien's work has won many honors, including the Heineken, Wolf, and Rosenstiel awards and the American Chemical Society Award for Creative Invention. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Tsien is a founder of Senomyx. He joined the Senomyx Scientific Advisory Board in July 1999. | 