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APPOINTMENTS

Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering
Harvard Medical School

Professor, Department of Pathology
Harvard Medical School

Core Faculty, Wyss Institute
Harvard University

Associate Member
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Co-Director, MGB Center for COVID Innovation
Mass General Brigham

EDUCATION

ABOUT THE LAB

The Walt lab has pioneered technologies that have improved our ability to analyze important biomolecules like proteins, nucleic acids, metabolites, enzymes, and extracellular vesicles. Our technologies, including Single Molecule Arrays, have allowed us to push the boundaries of high sensitivity biomarker detection. Today the lab is composed of an interdisciplinary team of passionate and motivated scientists and engineers, including chemists, biologists, biomedical engineers, computer scientists, and physicians who continue to develop new technologies while at the same time applying them to better understanding human disease. We apply our technologies primarily towards understanding and diagnosing diseases processes including cancer, infectious diseases and neurodegenerative diseases.

BIO

David R. Walt is the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Bioinspired Engineering at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Core Faculty Member of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, Associate Member at the Broad Institute, and is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. Walt is the Scientific Founder of Illumina Inc., Quanterix Corp., and has co-founded multiple other life sciences startups including Ultivue, Inc., Arbor Biotechnologies, Sherlock Biosciences, Vizgen, Inc., and Torus Biosciences. He has received numerous national and international awards and honors for his fundamental and applied work in the field of optical microwell arrays and single molecules including the 2023 National Academy of Engineering’s Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize and the 2021 Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine. His lab’s research focuses on creating and using novel technologies to solve unmet clinical diagnostics problems. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, a Member of the American Philosophical Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and is inducted in the US National Inventors Hall of Fame.