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
  Peter Fratzl, Ph.D.
  Peter Fratzl is a pioneer in the field of biological materials sciences. He has been studying hierarchical structure and mechanical behavior of biological composite materials, such as wood, bone, tendon, sea shells and a variety of protein-based materials. In recognition of this work, he received several awards, including the Max Planck Research Prize and the...
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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
  Richard M. Murray, Ph.D.
  Richard Murray received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology in 1985 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He joined the faculty at Caltech in 1991 in Mechanical Engineering and helped found the Control...
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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...
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  Scientific Advisory Board Member
  Viola Vogel, Ph.D.
  Viola Vogel is Professor of Applied Mechanobiology in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST) at the ETH Zurich and chaired D-HEST from 2018-2020. She holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Frankfurt (1987) and conducted her research at the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen (1980-88) for which she received...