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Elizabeth Garrett Chair of Convergent Biosciences
University of Southern California, California, United States
Professor Scott E. Fraser has a long-standing commitment to quantitative biology, applying the tools of chemistry, engineering, and physics to problems in biology and medicine. His personal research centers on imaging and molecular analyses of intact biological systems, with an emphasis on early development, organogenesis, and medical diagnostics. His innovations have spawned start-up companies, and have been integrated into instruments and FDA approved diagnostics. After training in physics (B.S., Harvey Mudd College, 1976) and biophysics (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1979), Fraser served on the faculty at UCIrvine. In 1990 he moved to Caltech to serve as the Anna Rosen Professor of Biology, and founded several multidisciplinary centers. In 2012, he moved to USC to take a Provost Professorship. He remains active in interdisciplinary research and serves as the Director of Science Initiatives for the USC campuses as well as co-directing USC’s Bridge Institute.
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Monday, February 7, 2022
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM