Faculty & Leadership

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  Scientific Advisory Board Member
  Jef D. Boeke, Ph.D., D.Sc.
  Jef Boeke founded and directs the Institute for Systems Genetics at NYU Langone Health. From 1985-2014 Dr. Boeke was on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is known for foundational work on mechanistic and genomic aspects of retrotransposition. His lab develops new technologies in genetics, genomics and synthetic biology. He elucidated...
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  Scientific Advisory Board Member
  Jennifer Elisseeff, Ph.D.
  Dr. Elisseeff is the Morton Goldberg Professor and Director of the Translational Tissue Engineering Center at Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Wilmer Eye Institute with appointments in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Materials Science and Orthopedic Surgery. She was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, the National...
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  Scientific Advisory Board Member
  Robert J. Full, Ph.D.
  Robert Full is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Full received his undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degrees at SUNY Buffalo and then held a postdoctoral position at The University of Chicago before joining the faculty at Berkeley in 1986. He holds a joint appointment...
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  Scientific Advisory Board Member
  Michael Jewett, Ph.D.
  Michael Jewett is a Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. His research group focuses on advancing synthetic biology research to support planet and societal health, with applications in medicine, manufacturing, sustainability, and education. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the NIH Pathway to Independence Award, David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and Finalist for the Blavatnik...
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  Scientific Advisory Board Member
  Shana Kelley
  Dr. Shana Kelley is the President of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago and the Neena B. Schwartz Professor at Northwestern in the Departments of Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics. The Kelley research group has pioneered new methods for tracking molecular and cellular analytes with unprecedented sensitivity. Dr. Kelley’s work has been recognized...
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  Scientific Advisory Board Chair
  Judith L. Swain, M.D.
  Dr. Judith L. Swain is currently Chief Medical Officer of Physiowave, LLC, and Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore. She was previously A*STAR Senior Fellow, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore), and Professor of Medicine at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and was the Founding Executive Director of...
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  Scientific Advisory Board Member
  Albert van den Berg, Ph.D.
  Albert van den Berg received his M.Sc. in applied physics in 1983, and his Ph.D. in 1988 both at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. From 1988-1993 he worked in Neuchatel, Switzerland, at the Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) and the University of Neuchatel (IMT) on miniaturized chemical sensors. In 2000 he was...