fluidigm corp (FLDM:NASDAQ GS)

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Dr. Stephen R. Quake, D.phil, Ph.D. serves as a Co-Chairman at Department of Bioengineering of Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Quake co-founded Fluidigm Corporation in 1999. Dr. Quake is a Co-Founder of Helicos BioSciences Corporation. He has been an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 2005. Throughout his career, he is active in the field of single molecule biophysics and has focused on precision measurements on single molecules. Previously, ... Dr. Quake served as a Scientific Consultant to SEQ. Prior to this, he held research positions at several esteemed institutions, including the Xerox Institute for Research on Learning and the Mathematics Department at Yale University. He serves as Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board at Fluidigm Corporation. He serves as Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board at Helicos BioSciences Corporation. He serves as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at GenapSys, Inc. He has been a Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Fluidigm Corporation since June 1999. He serves as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board and Member of Clinical advisory board at Verinata Health, Inc. He served as a Director of Fluidigm Corporation. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Quake is a Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. In 1996, Dr. Quake joined the faculty of the California Institute of Technology, where he rose through the ranks and was ultimately appointed the Thomas and Doris Everhart Professor of Applied Physics and Physics. He moved back to Stanford University in 2004 to help launch a new department in Bioengineering. He spent two years as a Post-Doc in Nobel Laureate Steven Chu’s group at Stanford University developing techniques to manipulate single DNA molecules with optical tweezers. Dr. Quake has published over 20 papers in the fields of microfluidics and biophysics. Dr. Quake has received many scientific awards and honors, including the opportunity to participate in the N.A.E. Symposium for Frontiers in Science in 2000 and was awarded the NSF "Career" award in 1997. His numerous career recognitions include "First" award in 1997 from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health and the NIH Director's Pioneer Award in 2004 with recent awards from the MIT Technology Review Magazine, Forbes and Popular Science. He was named a Packard Fellow in 1999. Dr. Quake holds a B.S in Physics and an M.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University in 1991 and a Doctorate in Physics and Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Oxford University in 1994 as a Marshall scholar.

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