GENETICS REVOLUTION
Participant Backgrounds
Frank Doyle is the John A. Paulson Dean of the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where he also is the John A. & Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor. His research interests are in systems biology, network science, modeling and analysis of circadian rhythms, and drug delivery for diabetes. Prior to Harvard, Doyle Chaired the Chemical Engineering Department at UC Santa Barbara and was the Director of the UCSB/MIT/Caltech Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, and the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering. He received a B.S.E. degree from Princeton, C.P.G.S. from Cambridge, and Ph.D. from Caltech, all in Chemical Engineering. He has also held faculty appointments at Purdue University and the University of Delaware, and held visiting positions at DuPont, Weyerhaeuser, and Stuttgart University. He has been recognized as a Fellow of multiple professional organizations including: IEEE, IFAC, AIMBE, and the AAAS. He was the President for the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2015, and is the Vice President of the International Federation of Automatic Control. In 2005, he was awarded the Computing in Chemical Engineering Award from the AIChE for his innovative work in systems biology, and in 2015 received the Control Engineering Practice Award from the American Automatic Control Council for his development of the artificial pancreas. In 2016, he was inducted as a Fellow into the National Academy of Medicine for his work on biomedical control.
Martha Stampfer ‘68, PhD MIT ’72 is a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, U. California, where she has conducted research into human cell biology and breast cancer since 1976. She developed methods to grow normal human mammary glandular cells, and transform them to immortality and malignancy, in order to examine what can promote or inhibit malignant progression. Cell cultures from her Bank (hmec.lbl.gov) have been provided to hundreds of researchers worldwide. She has been most interested in approaches that could facilitate methods for cancer prevention.