David Robert Walt, BS, PhD

David R. Walt is a core faculty member of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University is the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Bioinspired Engineering at Harvard Medical School. He is also a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an associate member at the Broad Institute and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor. Dr. Walt is the scientific founder of Illumina Inc. and Quanterix Corp., and he has co-founded multiple other life sciences startups. Dr. Walt pioneered the use of microwell arrays for single-molecule detection and genetic measurements. His lab is developing new diagnostics tools and biomarker assay technologies based on single-molecule detection to address unmet clinical needs in diagnostics. He also is a founder and lead of the Wyss Diagnostic Accelerator, which works toward the fast creation of diagnostic technologies to solve high-value clinical problems through deep collaborations between bioengineers, clinicians and industry participants.