- Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School
- Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Core Faculty-Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Engineering, Harvard University
- Associate Member, Broad Institute
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
- Co-Director of the Mass General Brigham Center for COVID Innovation
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Walt’s research focuses on creating and using novel technologies to solve unmet clinical diagnostics problems. Walt is the Scientific Founder of Illumina Inc., Quanterix Corp., and has co-founded multiple other life sciences startups. He has received numerous awards and honors for his fundamental and applied work in the field of optical microwell arrays and single molecules including the 2023 National Academy of Engineering’s Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize and the 2021 Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, a Member of the American Philosophical Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and is inducted in the US National Inventors Hall of Fame. In 2025, he received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Biden.
dwalt@bwh.harvard.edu