Barry L Stoddard sponsors free access to F1000 for Institute of Biotechnology Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania. Supporting F1000's initiative to make itself available to scientists in all countries, including free access to developing countries (more details).

Barry Stoddard is a native of the Pacific Northwest, having lived in Northern Idaho and Washington State for all but seven years of his life. After graduating from Sandpoint High School in 1981, he attended Whitman College, graduating with a Bachelor¿s degree in Chemistry (Biology minor) in 1985. After a summer working for the Monsanto Corporation, he entered graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning his doctoral degree in 1990 in Biophysical Chemistry for research on enzyme mechanism and structure using X-ray crystallography. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley, Dr. Stoddard joined the faculty at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in 1992, teaching and supervising a research laboratory there ever since. Dr. Stoddard was promoted to Full Member status at the FHCRC in 1999, and was appointed associate director of Basic Sciences and director of the graduate program in Molecular and Cellular Biology in 2000. He also holds an affiliate faculty position at the University of Washington College of Medicine in the Department of Biochemistry.

Dr. Stoddard¿s research interests are in the structure, mechanism, and engineering of enzymatic catalysts for basic research and biomedical applications. His lab has conducted wide ranging research on gene-specific endonucleases, nucleotide synthesis and salvage enzymes, blood coagulation factors, and the development of time-resolved crystallographic methods. He has coauthored over 50 research articles and 20 reviews in these fields since 1990. Dr. Stoddard has also served as a consultant on several advisory boards, including those formed for industrial and NASA-sponsored research on microgravity crystallization, and for companies involved in structural biology instrumentation and methodologies.

Dr. Stoddard lives in Bellevue, Washington with his wife Amy, his sons Benjamin and Zachary, and a laborador retriever named Gracie. In his free time he enjoys skiiing and snowboarding, golfing, biking, reading and getting onto the mountains and waters of western Washington.