Honoring Innovative and Pioneering Contributions in Genomic Technology
AIMBE Fellows represent the top 2% of medical and biological engineers. They include the most accomplished medical and biological engineers in academia, industry, education, clinical practice, and government. Congratulations to Dr. Rob Mitra for being inducted on March 31 in Arlington, Va. along with 169 other new fellows from across the United States.
Dr. Rob Mitra uses experimental and computational methods to understand the fundamental mechanisms that control gene regulation and how they go away in disease. He has developed effective new genomic technologies, including the earliest experiment pioneering next-generation sequencing, which is a technology that has reduced the cost of DNA sequencing by several orders of magnitude. He has applied that technology to address a variety of problems in diagnostics, genomics and gene regulation. He owns or co-owns more than 20 patents, which have been derived from his work.
Dr. Rob Mitra is a leader of genomic science at WashU Medicine, having played significant roles in the establishment and growth of the Genome Technology Access Center, the Genomics and Pathology Services Lab and the Genome Engineering and Stem Cell Center.
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