Garry Nolan
{{Short description|American academic (born c. 1961)}}
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Garry P. Nolan (born {{circa|1961}}) is a British-American{{Cite podcast|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=1eD_sZEzSCA|title=Alien & UFO: The Critical Question Nobody's Asking - Garry Nolan|host=Gita Wirjawan}} immunologist, academic, inventor, and business executive. He holds the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor Endowed Chair in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously|title=How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously|date=2021-04-30|magazine=The New Yorker|last=Lewis-Kraus|first=Gideon|access-date=2022-08-09}}{{cite web|url=https://profiles.stanford.edu/garry-nolan?tab=bio|title=Garry Nolan|date=n.d.|publisher=Stanford University|access-date=2022-08-09|url-status=live|archive-date=2022-02-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211204330/https://profiles.stanford.edu/garry-nolan?tab=bio}} Nolan has founded biotechnology companies. Since 2022, most of his public appearances have been related to his support for ufology and his belief that extraterrestrial intelligence has visited or resides on Earth.
Education
Nolan graduated in 1983 from Cornell University with a BS degree in biology with a specialization in genetics. In 1989, he received his PhD in genetics from Stanford University under Leonard Herzenberg before doing post-doctoral work with Nobel laureate David Baltimore at MIT.
Research
His areas of research include autoimmunity and inflammation, cancer and leukemia, hematopoiesis, and using computation for network and systems immunology.{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nzkq/stanford-professor-garry-nolan-analyzing-anomalous-materials-from-ufo-crashes|title=Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Anomalous Materials From UFO Crashes|date=2021-12-10|last=Campion|first=Thobey|publisher=Vice|access-date=2022-08-09}}
Companies
In 1996, Nolan founded the biotechnology company Rigel, Inc. with colleagues Donald Payan, James Gower, Thomas Raffin, and Ronald Garren in South San Francisco.{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/RIGL/company-people|title=Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc.|date=2022|publisher=Wall Street Journal|access-date=2022-08-09|url-status=live|archive-date=2022-02-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215021449/https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/RIGL/company-people}} In 2003, he established the biotech company Nodality, Inc., which develops "personalized tests for cancer and autoimmune diseases."{{cite web|url=https://cen.acs.org/articles/88/i13/Nodality-Wins-Backing-Pfizer-Venture.html|title=Nodality Wins Backing From Pfizer Venture|date=2010-03-29|last=Jarvis|first=Lisa M.|publisher=C&EN|access-date=2022-08-09}} Big data company BINA Technology was founded in 2010 and bought out by Roche in 2014 for $107 million.{{cite web|url=https://www.decibio.com/insights/decibios-spatial-omics-q-a-with-garry-nolan-of-stanford-university|title=DeciBio's Spatial Omics Q&A with Garry Nolan of Stanford University|date=2021-09-15|publisher=Decibio|last=Jorgensen|first=Max|access-date=2022-08-09}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bio-itworld.com/news/2014/12/19/roche-acquires-bina-technologies-powerful-genome-analysis-platform|title=Roche Acquires Bina Technologies' Powerful Genome Analysis Platform|date=2014-12-19|last=Proffitt|first=Allison|publisher=Bio IT World|access-date=2022-08-09}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/12/23/big-datas-bina-acquired-by-big-pharmas-roche.html|title=Roche Acquires Bina Technologies' Powerful Genome Analysis Platform|last=McCormick|first=Jason|date=2014-12-23|publisher=BizJournals|access-date=2022-08-09}} In 2011, he founded Apprise, which focused on cell analysis using split-pool technology. Nolan later sold Apprise to Roche, with whom he co-founded another startup, Scale Bio, which also focuses on split-pool technology.{{cite web|url=https://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/scale-biosciences-still-stealth-mode-develop-single-cell-spatial-biology-tech|title=Scale Biosciences, Still in Stealth Mode, to Develop Single-Cell, Spatial Biology Tech|date=2021-07-22|publisher=Genome Web|last=Han|first=Andrew P.|access-date=2022-08-09}} In 2015, with postdocs Yury Goltsev and Nikolay Samusik, he founded Akoya Biosciences, which commercializes Nolan's co-Detection by indexing (CODEX) technology.{{cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2021/04/16/biomea-fusion-akoya-biosciences-ipos-raise-285m.htm|title=Biomea Fusion, Akoya Biosciences raise $285 million in IPOs|date=2021-04-16|publisher=BizJournals|last=Schubarth|first=Cromwell|access-date=2022-08-09}}{{cite web|url=https://www.genengnews.com/sponsored/spatial-phenotyping-adds-a-new-dimension-to-discovery-biology/|title=Spatial Phenotyping Adds a New Dimension to Discovery Biology|date=2021-09-01|publisher=Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News|author=Akoya Biosciences|access-date=2022-08-09}}
Ufology and belief in extraterrestrial contact
{{See also|Ufology}}
Starting in 2012, Nolan promoted his investigations of the Atacama skeleton, a corpse from Chile that ufologists had speculated to be of alien origin, but which he later revealed to be a mummified human stillbirth with genetic bone defects and gene mutation causing deformity.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/science/ata-mummy-alien-chile.html|title=Was a Tiny Mummy in the Atacama an Alien? No, but the Real Story Is Almost as Strange|date=2018-03-22|work=New York Times|access-date=2022-08-09|last=Zimmer|first=Carl|url-status=live|archive-date=2022-01-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108144111/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/science/ata-mummy-alien-chile.html}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/chile-mummy-ata-alien-dna|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307013909/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/chile-mummy-ata-alien-dna|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 March 2021|title=Tiny Mummy's 'Alien' Appearance Finally Explained|date=2018-03-22|last=Check Hayden|first=Erika|publisher=National Geographic|access-date=2022-08-09}}{{cite web|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/strange-alien-skeleton-actually-human-fetus-genetic-bone-defects|title=This strange 'alien' skeleton is actually a human fetus with genetic bone defects|date=2018-03-22|publisher=Science|last=Warren|first=Matt|access-date=2022-08-09}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/health/atacama-skeleton-mystery/index.html|title=Researchers finally solve mystery of 'alien' skeleton|last=Strickland|first=Ashley|date=2018-03-22|publisher=CNN|access-date=2022-08-09}}{{cite web|url=https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/03/mysterious-skeleton-shows-molecular-complexity-of-bone-diseases.html|title=Mysterious skeleton shows molecular complexity of bone diseases|date=2018-03-22|last=Armitage|first=Hanae|publisher=Stanford University|access-date=2022-08-09}}
According to Nolan, he was approached by "some people representing the government and an aerospace corporation to help them understand the medical harm that had come to some individuals, related to supposed interactions with an anomalous craft" because "they were interested in the kinds of blood analysis that my lab can do".{{cite web|url=https://www.kqed.org/science/1975185/ufos-seti-astronomer-stanford-researcher-aerospace-expert-weigh-in|title=UFOs: SETI Astronomer, Stanford Researcher, Aerospace Expert Weigh In|last=Brooks|first=Jon|date=2021-06-14|publisher=KQED|access-date=2022-08-09}}
Nolan has made extensive claims in conjunction with other ufologists about supposed materials associated with UFOs.{{cite journal|display-authors=etal|title=Improved instrumental techniques, including isotopic analysis, applicable to the characterization of unusual materials with potential relevance to aerospace forensics|last1=Nolan|first1=Garry P.|last2=Vallee|first2=Jacques F.|last3=Jiang|first3=Sizun|last4=Lemke|first4=Larry G.|date=2022|volume=128|doi=10.1016/j.paerosci.2021.100788|journal=Progress in Aerospace Sciences|page=100788 |bibcode=2022PrAeS.12800788N |doi-access=free}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/u-s-military-takes-ufos-seriously-why-doesn-t-silicon-ncna1264107|title=The U.S. military takes UFOs seriously. Why doesn't Silicon Valley or academia?|date=2021-04-16|last=Virk|first=Rizwam|publisher=NBC News|access-date=2022-08-09}} In August 2022, Nolan appeared on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight{{Citation |title=Episode dated August 1st 2022 |date=2022-08-01 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21428358/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_1 |series=Tucker Carlson Tonight |access-date=2022-08-17}} show and discussed his claims of UAP-related research in an hour-long interview. During a May 2023 SALT iConnections conference in Manhattan for an interview with Alex Klokus titled "The Pentagon, Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Crashed UFOs", Nolan claimed that some governments have retrieved artifacts from extraterrestrial craft, said that he gives the probability as "100 percent" that extraterrestrials have not only visited Earth but have been visiting earth for a long time, and speculated that what has visited Earth are simply "emissaries" and possibly drones.{{cite web |url=https://nypost.com/2023/05/23/stanford-prof-says-aliens-are-100-living-among-us/ |title=Stanford prof Garry Nolan says aliens are '100%' living among us |last=Keane |first=Isabel |date=23 May 2023 |website=New York Post |access-date=11 June 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/aliens-have-been-earth-long-time-stanford-professor |title=Aliens 'have been on Earth a long time': Stanford Professor |last=Eberhart |first=Chris |date=27 May 2023 |website=Fox News |access-date=11 June 2023}} As New York Times columnist Ezra Klein interviewed journalist and UFO author Leslie Kean in June 2023, Kean told Klein that Nolan "knows David Grusch very well and vouches for him".{{cite web |last=Klein |first=Ezra |date=20 June 2023 |title=Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Leslie Kean (from What the Heck Is Going on With These U.F.O. Stories?) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-transcript-leslie-kean.html |access-date=21 June 2023 |website=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230621105854/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-transcript-leslie-kean.html |archive-date=21 June 2023 |url-status=live }}
Nolan co-founded The Sol Foundation with sociocultural anthropologist Peter Skafish on August 15, 2023.{{cite web |last1=Hanks |first1=Micah |title=The Sol Foundation: How a New Think Tank of Academics is Applying 'Cutting-Edge Research' to the UAP Mystery |url=https://thedebrief.org/the-sol-foundation-how-a-new-think-tank-of-academics-is-applying-cutting-edge-research-the-uap-mystery/|website=The Debrief |date=12 September 2023}}
Awards and honors
- United States Department of Defense Teal Innovator Award (2012){{cite web|url=http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2012/11/nolan-wins-funds-to-map-lineages-in-ovarian-cancer-cells.html|title=Nolan wins funds to 'map' lineages in ovarian cancer cells|date=2012-11-19|last=Conger|first=Krista|publisher=Stanford University|access-date=2022-08-09}}
References
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External links
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- [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=saRFOssAAAAJ Garry Nolan] at Google Scholar
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR0JtbuLhPo Garry Nolan is interviewed by journalist Ross Coulthart in December 2023]
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