SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2006--Affymetrix Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX - News) announced today that Founder, Chairman and CEO, Stephen P.A. Fodor, Ph.D., as well as Lubert Stryer, MD (Chairman, Affymetrix Scientific Advisory Board), J. Leighton Read, MD and Michael C. Pirrung, Ph.D. were named the 2006 “European Inventors of the Year” by the European Patent Office (EPO) in the small to medium sized enterprise category. The award recognizes the inventors for being the first to file patents on high-density microarray technology. For more information on the EPO awards, please visit: http://www.european-patent-office.org/news/pressrel/2006_05_11_e.htm
