2023 Rozenberg Tulip Award – Prof. Georg Seelig

The 2023 Rozenberg Tulip Award was conferred to Georg Seelig, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and at the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington Seattle, for his work on DNA computing with strand displacement systems, which has had enormous impact on the field. And for interfacing strand displacement with biological signals in living cells, developing other highly influential molecular technologies for single cell sequencing and analysis of gene regulation, and helping create the next generation of scalable DNA storage and retrieval.