User:Patricia at GMMB/Joseph DeRisi Early life

Early life and education
DeRisi was raised in Carmichael, California, where he graduated from Del Campo High School. He became interested in the causes of disease in the 1980s as a teenager, seeing news coverage about the AIDS epidemic and scientists' attempts to identify the cause of illness and deaths. He received a B.A. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 1992 from the University of California, Santa Cruz. DeRisi earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Stanford University in 1999. His thesis work was The Analysis of whole genome gene expression in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. He completed his Ph.D. research in the laboratory of Patrick O. Brown, where he pioneered methods for the production and use of DNA microarrays. Upon graduation, DeRisi accepted a position as a Sandler Fellow at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).