New Faculty Spotlight
Lior Pachter is a leading computational biologist working in genomics who arrived in April 2017 from UC Berkeley to take up the position of Bren Professor of Computational Biology at Caltech. He is particularly interested in applications of high-throughput sequencing to RNA biology.
New Assistant Professor of Computational Biology, Matt Thomson, arrived in January 2017 from UCSF where he was a Fellow with an independent laboratory. Matt's group is applying quantitative experimental and modeling approaches to gain programatic control over cellular differentiation.
Lihong Wang joined the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 2017 as Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering. Prior to joining the Caltech faculty, he held the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professorship of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. His primary research interest is in the development of novel biomedical imaging technologies.