Staff

Viviana Gradinaru

Merkin Institute Director & Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Neuroscience and Biological Engineering

George Tolomiczenko

Executive Director

Liz Demeter

Administrative Assistant & Program Coordinator

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Entrepreneurs in Residence

Jay Chiang

OTTCP EIR - Life Sciences

Julie Schoenfeld

OTTCP EIR - Physical Sciences

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Merkin Institute Executive Committee

Anima Anandkumar

Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Pamela Bjorkman

David Baltimore Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering; Merkin Institute Professor

Azita Emami

Andrew and Peggy Cherng Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering; Director, Center for Sensing to Intelligence

Morteza (Mory) Gharib

Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Medical Engineering; Booth-Kresa Leadership Chair, Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies; Director, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories; Director, Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies

Mitchell Guttman

Professor of Biology

Linda Hsieh-Wilson

Milton and Rosalind Chang Professor of Chemistry; Merkin Institute Professor

Sarkis Mazmanian

Luis B. and Nelly Soux Professor of Microbiology; Merkin Institute Professor

Dean Mobbs

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience; Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Caltech Brain Imaging Center; Director, Caltech Brain Imaging Center

Mikhail Shapiro

Max Delbrück Professor of Chemical Engineering and Medical Engineering; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Brian Stoltz

Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute

Lihong Wang

Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering; Andrew and Peggy Cherng Medical Engineering Leadership Chair; Executive Officer for Medical Engineering

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Physician Network Associates

Jose M. Barral

Brian Lee

Kalyanam Shivkumar

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Merkin Institute Professors

Pamela Bjorkman

David Baltimore Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering; Merkin Institute Professor

Linda Hsieh-Wilson

Milton and Rosalind Chang Professor of Chemistry; Merkin Institute Professor

Rustem Ismagilov

Ethel Wilson Bowles and Robert Bowles Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Merkin Institute Professor; Director of the Jacobs Institute for Molecular Engineering for Medicine

Steve Mayo

Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry; Merkin Institute Professor

Sarkis Mazmanian

Luis B. and Nelly Soux Professor of Microbiology; Merkin Institute Professor

Dianne Newman

Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology; Merkin Institute Professor

Axel Scherer

Bernard Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics and Physics; Merkin Institute Professor

Barbara Wold

Bren Professor of Molecular Biology & Past Director of the Merkin Institute

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Merkin Institute Co-sponsored Fellow

Ron Diskin

Moore Fellow

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