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Michael B. Eisen

American biologist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1967 · age 59

Michael Bruce Eisen is an American computational biologist and the former editor-in-chief of the journal eLife. He is a professor of genetics, genomics and development at University of California, Berkeley.

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He is a leading advocate of open access scientific publishing and is co-founder of Public Library of Science (PLOS). In 2018, Eisen announced his candidacy U.S. Senate from California as an Independent, though he failed to qualify for the ballot.

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Scientists
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Scientist
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Living
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Born 1967 · age 59

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