The Alan S. Michaels Distinguished Lectureship in Medical and Biological Engineering – 2023

Design for inference: the power of random experiments in biology

Aviv Regev
Head, Executive Vice President
Genentech Research and Early Development

Friday, March 10, 2023
3:00 p.m., 66-110 (2:30 p.m. Reception)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
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Bio
Aviv Regev is the head of Genentech Research and Early Development. Prior to Genentech, Regev served as Chair of the Faculty, Core Member, and Founding director of the Klarman Cell observatory at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and as Professor of Biology at MIT and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is a founding co-chair of the Human Cell Atlas. Regev has pioneered foundational experimental and computational methods in single-cell genomics, and is a leader in deciphering molecular circuits that govern cells, tissues and organs in health and disease. Among many honors, she is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine.