Are you interested in leveraging the power of biological systems to enable technological breakthroughs in medicine, materials, and chemicals? Join us for the webinar.

Wednesday, December 2 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. CST

Join Northwestern University's Corporate Engagement team for a webinar on Synthetic Biology, led by Dr. Michael Jewett, PhD, the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Director of the Center for Synthetic Biology at Northwestern University.

Registration is required to attend this free webinar. Upon registration, you will receive a link that is unique to your email address, so please do not share it. The webinar will be recorded and shared with all those who have registered.

Speaker Bio:

Michael Jewett is the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Director of the Center for Synthetic Biology at Northwestern University. Dr. Jewett received his PhD in 2005 at Stanford University, completed postdoctoral studies at the Center for Microbial Biotechnology in Denmark and the Harvard Medical School, and was a guest professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).

He is the recipient of the NIH Pathway to Independence Award in 2009, David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering in 2011, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2011, Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award in 2015, the ACS Biochemical Technologies Division Young Investigator Award in 2017, and a Finalist for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists, Life Sciences Category in 2019. Additionally, Jewett has co-founded 5 start-up companies (e.g., SwiftScale Biologics, Stemloop, Inc., Design Pharmaceuticals).