Dr. Anita Goel Harvard Page

6/3/2010

Announcement

Dr. Goel is invited by PCAST to discuss President Obama’s “Strategy for American Innovation” & Roadmap for harnessing nanotechnology to stimulate the US economy

on June 22

6/3/2010

Research Interests

Professional Affiliations

Global Initiatives

Awards & Education

Research Interests: Dr. Goel has a deep passion for fundamental science, especially elucidating the physics of living systems at the nanoscale. Her work in applied science harnesses these fundamental insights to develop nanotechnology platforms such as those for portable disease detection and nanosystems for novel energy harvesting and biocomputing applications. Dr. Anita Goel, MD, PhD, founded Nanobiosym as an R&D innovation engine and hi-tech incubator at the convergence of physics, nanotechnology and biomedicine. She is also piloting a global initiative to build innovative public-private partnerships with academic, commercial, global thought leaders and NGO’s, to collectively harness innovations at this convergence to sustainably address some of the world’s most pressing needs in healthcare, energy, and the environment.

Awards & Education: A Harvard-MIT trained physicist and physician, Dr. Goel was named as one of the world’s “Top 35 Science and Technology Innovators under the age of 35” by MIT Technology Review…more

Global Initiatives: Dr. Goel has been an invited keynote speaker at many major international conferences, symposia, and university colloquia and often gives Guest Faculty Lectures at Harvard and MIT. She was invited to chair a Roundtable on “Using Science and Technology as a Tool for International Diplomacy” at the 2009 Science and Technology in Society Forum in Kyoto, Japan. Senator John Kerry invited her to give expert testimony before the US Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Innovation to support the reauthorization of the $1.5 billion U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative…more

Professional Affiliations: Dr. Goel serves on the Board of Overseers of the Boston Museum of Science, the National Board of the Museum of Science and Industry, the Nanotechnology Advisory Board of Lockheed Martin Corporation… more