Bill Link BME Distinguished Lecture Series: Daniel Fletcher, UC Berkeley

Abstract: Early detection of disease remains a major goal of modern health care. This talk will describe efforts at two different scales to harness technology for improved health care, one centered on converting mobile phones into image-based diagnostic platforms and the other focused on understanding and manipulating molecular mechanisms involved in target recognition by the innate immune system.

Bio:  Dan Fletcher is the Chatterjee Professor of Bioengineering & Biophysics at UC Berkeley, where he also serves as chair of the bioengineering eepartment and chief technologist of the Blum Center for Developing Economies. Fletcher received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University, a doctorate from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a doctorate from Stanford University as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. His bioengineering and biophysics research has been recognized with an NSF CAREER Award, a Tech Award from the San Jose Tech Museum, and a “Best of What’s New” citation by Popular Science magazine. He served as a White House Fellow in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and was named one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers.