Dr. Walt, joined our board in February 2013. Since July 2017, Dr. Walt is a professor in the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a Core Faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. Dr. Walt is also a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Pathology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. Prior to that, Dr. Walt was University Professor, Professor of Genetics, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Neuroscience, and Professor of Oral Medicine at Tufts University. He was also the Founding Director of the Tufts Institute for Innovation. He is co-chair of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology. Dr. Walt is the Scientific Founder of both Illumina Inc. and Quanterix Corp. Dr. Walt is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Dr. Walt has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers and has over 75 issued US patents. He has received numerous national and international awards and honors for his fundamental and applied work in the field of optical arrays and single molecules. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He received a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in chemical biology from SUNY at Stony Brook, and did postdoctoral studies at MIT.  

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