David R. Walt is Robinson Professor of Chemistry at Tufts University. After postdoctoral studies at MIT, he joined the chemistry faculty at Tufts. Professor Walt served as Chemistry Department Chairman from 1989 to 1996. Walt serves on many government advisory panels and boards including service as a member of an NIH study section and he actively participates in government advisory meetings for biodefense. He serves on two National Academy of Sciences National Research Council Committees and previously chaired a National Research Council panel on New Measurement Technologies for the Oceans. In 1999, Walt was Professor Invitee' at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.
Walt is the Scientific Founder of Illumina, Inc., a publicly traded, San Diego-based biotechnology company with over 300 employees pursuing next generation genotyping instrumentation. Walt has published over 150 papers, holds over thirty patents, and has given hundreds of invited scientific presentations. Walt's research interests are in the field of sensors with particular focus in the area of fiber-optic chemical sensors. His pioneering research in the field of optical sensors has led to the elucidation of fundamental principles as well as important applications of sensors.
David Walt received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Chemical Biology from SUNY at Stony Brook.
Well in terms of challenges, I think obviously any company is going to have - going to have some challenges. The challenges in terms of starting up Illumina, financial was really not a problem. Identifying the market I think was, because we have the technology platform that was quite broad in terms...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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