Christopher Voigt is an American synthetic biologist, molecular biophysicist, and engineer.[1][2]
Christopher A. Voigt | |
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Born | |
Nationality | U.S. |
Citizenship | U.S. |
Alma mater | University of Michigan California Institute of Technology University of California - Berkeley |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Synthetic Biology, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, Biological Engineering |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UCSF |
Doctoral advisor | Zhen-Gang Wang, Frances Arnold, Stephen Mayo, Adam P Arkin (Postdoctoral) |
Voigt is the Daniel I.C. Wang Professor of Advanced Biotechnology in the Department of Biological Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He works in the developing field of synthetic biology. He is the co-director of the Synthetic Biology Center[3] at MIT and the co-founder of the MIT-Broad Foundry.[4][5]
His research interests focus on the programming of cells to perform coordinated and complex tasks for applications in medicine, agriculture, and industry. His works include:
In addition, he is the:
His former students have founded Asimov[36] (mammalian synthetic biology), De Novo DNA[37] (computational design), Bolt Threads[38] (spider silk-based textiles), Pivot Bio[39] (agriculture), and Industrial Microbes[40] (methane consuming organisms).