Dr. David R. Walt is Robinson Professor of Chemistry at Tufts University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. He received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Chemical Biology from SUNY at Stony Brook. After postdoctoral studies at MIT, he joined the chemistry faculty at Tufts and served as Chemistry Department Chairman from 1989 to 1996.
Dr. Walt serves on many government advisory panels and boards and serves on the editorial advisory board for numerous journals. From 1996-2003 he was Executive Editor of Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology. Dr. Walt is the Scientific Founder and a Director of Illumina Inc. and Quanterix Corp. He has received numerous national and international awards and honors for his fundamental and applied work in the field of optical sensors and arrays and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Walt has published over 200 papers, holds over fifty patents, and has given hundreds of invited scientific presentations.
