elected as a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences and to the Academy of the American Society of Microbiology, and in 2014 he received the John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science from the National Academy of Sciences. In 2015, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2016 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine. He was involved in the development of the ViroChip, which is used to rapidly identify viruses in bodily fluids. It was used to help identify the Severe acute respiratory syndrome virus in 2003. He has also been involved in the development of an online platform called IDseq, backed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, which is used to identify viruses from metagenomic sequencing data. In 2018 as part of this work DeRisi and colleagues identified the drug nitroxoline as a compound that could be repurposed as possible amoebicidal agent against Balamuthia mandrillaris which causes granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE) a fatal disease, in 2021 a man that had not responded with recommended drug therapy recovered after nitroxoline was added to the regime. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, DeRisi led a team that turned an empty lab space adjacent to the CZ Biohub into a CLIA-certified COVID-19 testing facility in eight days. CLIAhub became one of the nation's leading COVID-19 testing centers, processing thousands of tests per day and becoming a model for the nation. At the same time, DeRisi became an active proponent of developing a national COVID-19 surveillance system to identify and monitor the COVID-19 virus' mutations. Awards 2001 Searle Scholar Award, The Searle Scholars Program, Northbrook IL 2001 JP Morgan Chase Health Award, The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose CA 2002 Gordon Tomkins Chair of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco 2003 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Los Altos, CA 2004 MacArthur Fellowship, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL 2004 Wired RAVE Award, Health and Medicine, WIRED Magazine, San Francisco, CA 2005 BayBio Scientific Achievement Award, BayBio, San Francisco, CA 2006 Alumni Achievement Award, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 2007 Chabot Science Award, Chabot Space & Science Center, Oakland, CA 2008 The 14th Annual Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment, Pittsburgh, PA References External links