Lipman received the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities Award for outstanding contributions to Biomolecular Technologies in 1996.
In 2004, he was awarded the ISCB Senior Scientist Award and elected an ISCB Fellow in 2009 by the International Society for Computational Biology.
In 2005, Dr. Lipman was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences.
In 2013, he received the award of a White House "Open Science" Champion of Change.
Lipman received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his M.D. in 1980 from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
He is most well known for his work on a series of sequence similarity algorithm, starting from the Wilbur-Lipman algorithm in 1983, FASTA search search in 1985, BLAST in 1990, and Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST in 1997.
Lipman received the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities Award for outstanding contributions to Biomolecular Technologies in 1996.
In 2004, he was awarded the ISCB Senior Scientist Award and elected an ISCB Fellow in 2009 by the International Society for Computational Biology.
In 2005, Dr. Lipman was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences.
In 2013, he received the award of a White House "Open Science" Champion of Change.
In May 2017, it was announced that Lipman would leave his role at the NCBI to join plant-based meat company Impossible Foods as Chief Scientific Officer.
