Our People
Leading our research, education, entrepreneurship efforts, our faculty, staff, and trainees are propelling us to push the boundaries of synthetic biology.
Center Operations / Center Faculty / Center Researchers / Advisory Board
Center Operations
The Leadership Team
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Julius Lucks
Center Co-Director
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Danielle Tullman-Ercek
Center Co-Director
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Yael Mayer
Director of Operations and Outreach
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Ashty Karim
Director of Research
Center Staff
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Christine Akdeniz
Senior Education and Outreach Coordinator
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Brianna Bullock
Senior Program Coordinator
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Lauren Clark
Foundry Scientist
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Rebecca Spivack
Program Assistant
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Allie Trueb
Program Assistant
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Lisa La Vallee
Marketing and Communications Coordinator
Center Faculty
Our Core and Affiliate Faculty
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Our External Faculty
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Neda Bagheri
![jewett-michael](https://syntheticbiology.northwestern.edu/app/uploads/2023/08/jewett-michael.jpg)
Michael Jewett
External Faculty, Stanford University
Center Researchers
Our Postdoctoral Researchers
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Dr. Aaveg Aggarwal
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Jaison Rathina Raj Arivalagan
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Nasrin Naderi Beni
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Hilary Bethancourt
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Andrew Blake
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Kangfu Chen
Postdoctoral Fellow
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John Devany
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Carina Fedosejevs
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Állan Ferrari
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Cody FitzGerald
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Surath Gomis
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Sri Bala Gorugantu
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Sunghee Hwang
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Pandeeswari Jeeva
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Dr. Oliyad Jeilu
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Kevin Jooss
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Tae-Eun Kim
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Rahul Kumar
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Nitu Kumari
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Jean Lin
Rheumatology Fellow
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Ted Litberg
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Xiaoyang Liu
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Dr. Leticia Lopez-Flores
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Cat Majors
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Bapi Mandal
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Olivia Manley
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Anibal Arce Medina
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Carolyn Mills
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Guru Neupane
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Spencer Ng
Dermatology Resident
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Dayna Patterson
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Dr. Turash Haque Pial
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Sarah Quillin
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Aswathy Raghu
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Vicky Santoso
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Alexander Shaw
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Dr. Ahis Shrestha
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Ben Des Soye
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Pei Su
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Maria de Lourdes Cabezas Tapia
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Jane Thibeault
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Sai Phani Kumar Vangala
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Vidya Venkataramanan
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Daniel Wang
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Ashan Wettasinghe
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Jess Willi
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Dr. Jianshe Xia
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Jonathan Xia
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Dr. Yao Xiong
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Kefan Yang
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Hanie Yousefi
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Hossein Zargartalebi
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Quan Zhang
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Nanqing Zhou
Postdoctoral Associate
Our Graduate Students
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Abdalla Abdrabou
PhD Student
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Lauren Adams
PhD Student
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Rogelio Alvarado
PhD Student
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Michael Anderson
PhD Student
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Andre Archer
PhD Student
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Chloé Archuleta
PhD Student
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Daniel de Castro Assumpção
PhD Student
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Joey Ayala
Graduate Student
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Alexandra Barajas
PhD Student
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Natalie Barna
Undergraduate Student
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Jade Basinski
PhD Student
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Alexander Best
Graduate Student
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Lindsay Bogar
Master's Student
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Gauri Bora
PhD Student
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Jonathan Boucher
PhD Student
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Maddie Briggs
PhD Student
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Joey Brogan
Undergraduate Student
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Dylan Brown
PhD Student
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David Bushhouse
PhD Student
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Margaret Butler
PhD Student
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Delfin Buyco
PhD Student
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Andra Campbell
PhD Student
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Isa Candal
Undergraduate Student
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Christina Catlett
PhD Student
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Norah Chen
Master's Student
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Kathleen Cheng
MD PhD Student
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Edric Choi
PhD Student
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Lariana Cline
PhD Student
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Matthew Coile
PhD Student
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Amparo Cosio
PhD Student
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Israel DaSilva
PhD Student
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Herma Demissie
PhD Student
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Maddie DeWinter
PhD Student
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Bill Duong
PhD Student
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Ali Ehlen
PhD Student
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Holly Ekas
PhD Student
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Fatemeh Esmaeili
PhD Student
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Blake Everett
PhD Student
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Jonathon Fan
PhD Student
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Matthew Farnese
PhD Student
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Juliana Feng
MD/PhD Student
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Garth Fisher
PhD Student
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Sullivan Fitz
PhD Student
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Kevin Fitzgerald
PhD Student
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Connor Flynn
PhD Student
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Tina Fu
PhD Student
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Mario Garcia
PhD Student
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Jithin George
PhD Student
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Armin Geraili
PhD Student
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Emanuelle Grody
PhD Student
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Zhaoyi Gu
PhD Student
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Margaret Guilarte-Silva
Undergraduate Student
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Raveena Gupta
PhD Student
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Ethan Halingstad
PhD Student
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Brandon Li Hancock
PhD Student
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Laura Hertz
PhD Student
![heather](https://syntheticbiology.northwestern.edu/app/uploads/2024/05/heather-1280x1280.jpeg)
Heather Hirsch
PhD Student
![DSC06300](https://syntheticbiology.northwestern.edu/app/uploads/2023/09/DSC06300.jpeg)
Gloria Hu
PhD Student
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Vivian Hu
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Research Technologist
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Keerthana M Arun
Research Technologist
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Dr. Randy Atwal
Research Staff
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Caroline Bell
Research Technician
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Eric Berns
Research Staff
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Maria Cabezas
Research Staff
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Dingran Chang
Research Staff
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Victoria Chu
Research Technician
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Jagotamoy Das
Research Staff
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Eva Durance
Research Technician
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Amin GhavamiNejad
Research Staff
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Xudong Ji
Research Assistant Professor
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Felipe Jimenez-Angeles
Research Associate Professor
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Eleftherios Kirkinis
Senior Research Associate
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Elizabeth Lakoma
Undergraduate Research Assistant
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Katelyn Leisman
Research Staff
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Hongyu Liu
Bioinformatics Analyst
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Justin Modica
Research Staff
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Alexandra Moreno
Lab Manager
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Arundhati Pillai
Research Technician
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Eli Plunkett
Research Technologist
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Dr. Weitao Shuai
Research Associate
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Ahmed Usman
Clinical Trials Research Fellow
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Richard Wang
Research Staff
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Hansen Wang
Research Staff
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Amy Wang
Undergraduate Research Assistant
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Rebecca Wilson
Research Technician
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Sophie Xiao
Research Staff
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Tiffany Zhang
Program Assistant
Advisory Board
Our Academic Advisory Board
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Frances Arnold
American Chemical Engineer, Nobel Laureate, and Professor at California Institute of Technology
Frances is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2018, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of directed evolution to engineer enzymes.
She earned her BS in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University in 1979 and her PhD in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. There, she did her postdoctoral work in biophysical chemistry before coming to Caltech in 1986.
Arnold’s work has been recognized with many awards, including the 2011 Draper Prize and a 2013 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011. Arnold has the rare honor of being elected to all three National Academies in the United States — the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. In 2016 she became the first woman to win the Millennium Technology Prize, which she won for pioneering directed evolution. In 2017, Arnold was awarded the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Convergence Research by the National Academy of Sciences, which recognizes extraordinary contributions to convergence research. In 2018 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work in directed evolution, making her the fifth woman to receive the award in its 117 years of existence, and the first American woman.
Arnold is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Microbiology, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and an International Fellow of the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering in 2018
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James J. Collins
American Bioengineer and Termeer Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Collins is one of the founders of the field of synthetic biology, and has made multiple synthetic biology breakthroughs in biotechnology and biomedicine, including paper-based diagnostics for Zika & Ebola and programmable cells that serve as living diagnostics and living therapeutics to detect-and-treat infections, rare genetic metabolic disorders, and inflammatory bowel disease. His patented technologies have been licensed by numerous biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical devices companies. He has helped launch a number of companies, including Sample6 Technologies, Synlogic and EnBiotix.
Professor Collins has received numerous awards and honors, including a Rhodes Scholarship, a MacArthur “Genius” Award, an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, the Lagrange Prize from the CRT Foundation in Italy, the Sanofi-Institut Pasteur Award, the BMES Robert A. Pritzker Award, the HFSP Nakasone Award, the Promega Biotechnology Research Award, and being selected for Technology Review’s inaugural TR100 – 100 young innovators who will shape the future of technology – and the Scientific American 50 – the top 50 outstanding leaders in science and technology.
Collins is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He is also an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Furthermore, he is a charter fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
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Wendell Lim
Professor and Chair of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco
Lim is the director of the UCSF Center for Systems & Synthetic Biology. He earned his AB in chemistry from Harvard University and his PhD in biochemistry and biophysics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is interested in the logic of cell signaling systems: understanding how the networks of signaling proteins found in eukaryotic cells have evolved to allow cells to make complex behavioral decisions.
Significantly, Lim’s research group uses synthetic biology to redesign biological systems. In particular, various methods are used to create novel or modified signaling proteins and pathways, both to systematically understand network structure/function relationships and to develop engineered research tools and novel biotechnological and therapeutic applications. He is an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and he has received the Hans Neurath Award from The Protein Society.
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