Wyss Technology Development Fellows currently working at the Institute:
Shawn Douglas received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Yale in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard in 2009. His research interest is in developing experimental methods and software to construct and manipulate self-assembling biomaterials on the nanometer scale. He worked as a graduate student in the laboratories of William Shih and George Church to generate custom three-dimensional shapes using the "DNA origami" method, including a novel alignment medium for NMR structure determination of membrane proteins. He has led the development of caDNAno, an open-source computer-aided design software that aids in the design of 3D shapes. Contact: shawn.douglas@wyss.harvard.edu.
Ben Hatton received his Bachelor's in Materials Science and Engineering at Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario), and a Masters degree from McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario). He completed his Ph.D. in 2005 at the University of Toronto under the co-supervision of Doug Perovic (Materials Engineering) and Geoff Ozin (Chemistry) in the design of self-assembled ‘mesoporous’ nanostructured silicates, for applications as insulating dielectric layers in microelectronics. He worked at the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan, on colloidal engineering of ceramics, before joining Joanna Aizenberg at Bell Labs, as a post-doc in 2006, and then moving to Harvard in 2007. He is primarily interested in the application of self-assembly and the principles of ‘templated growth’ to control the structure and morphology of inorganic materials at the nano- and micrometer length scales. Contact: ben.hatton@wyss.harvard.edu.
Dan Dongeun Huh received a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University in 2000, Master’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering in 2002, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2007. Since then, he has worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in Don Ingber's lab at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston. Dan has authored over 20 papers in Nature, Nature Materials, PNAS, and other research journals, and has won numerous awards including Distinguished Achievement Award from Michigan, Widmer Best Poster Award from microTAS, and Horace H. Rackham Fellowship. His research at the Wyss Institute focuses on the development of novel bioinspired/biomimetic microsystems that can reproduce integrated structure and function of human organs. Contact: dan.huh@wyss.harvard.edu.
Eduardo A. Silva received a Licentiate degree in Metallurgical and Materials Science Engineering from University of Porto, Portugal, in 2001. He received his doctoral degree in Engineering Sciences: Bioengineering from the University of Porto in 2008, working in the laboratory of David Mooney, at the University of Michigan and Harvard University. Eduardo's research interest is the creation of multivalent materials systems for treating ischemia and driving tissue regeneration (e.g. coronary infarct, peripheral arterial disease, wound healing and diabetes). His immediate research plans relate to developing sophisticated injectable polymeric systems, designed at the nanoscale level with multifactorial biological valencies, capable of recruiting specialized subsets of progenitor and mature cells in order to drive and induce angiogenesis and further guide new tissue regeneration. Contact: eduardo.silva@wyss.harvard.edu.
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