David Walt — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Bioinspired Engineering at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Pathology.
Pioneered fiber optic sensors and biosensors, utilizing polymerization chemistry.
Developed random bead array technology, licensed to Illumina, Inc. in 1998 for genotyping and sequencing.
Invented Simoa, a highly sensitive technology for digital detection of nucleic acids and proteins.
Received his PhD in Chemical Biology from Stony Brook University in 1979.

Biography

David R. Walt is the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Bioinspired Engineering at Harvard Medical School and a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is a Core Faculty Member of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, an Associate Member at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor. Walt was also co-director of the Mass General Brigham Center for COVID Innovation.