Daniel Fletcher

Dan Fletcher is an Associate Professor in the Bioengineering Department and Biophysics Program at the University of California, Berkeley, where his research focuses on the development of biomedical devices and the study of cell movements in health and disease. Dr. Fletcher received a B.S.E. from Princeton University and a D.Phil. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. His research has received an NSF CAREER Award, a National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Award, multiple patents, and was named “Best of What’s New” by Popular Science magazine. Dr. Fletcher is also Deputy Director of the Physical Biosciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Faculty Affiliate of the QB3 and CITRIS Institutes, a member of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Group, and was recently named a White House Fellow.

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