Steve Quake, Ph.D., Lee Otterson Professor and Head of Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Stanford University

Speaker:

Stephen Quake, Ph.D.
Lee Otterson Professor
Department of Bioengineering and Applied Physics
Stanford University

Head of Science
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Faculty Host
Sid Dey

Title: A Decade of Molecular Cell Atlases

Bio:

Stephen Quake is Head of Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, where he oversees CZI’s science grant programs, technology development, and the CZ Biohub Network. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to science and is one of only two dozen scientists elected to all three National Academies. Steve also holds a faculty position at Stanford University, where he is the Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics. Previously he was the founding co-president of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (2016-2022), investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2006-2016), and professor at the California Institute of Technology (1996-2005).