David R Myers
(he/him)
Contact
Health Sciences Research Building Suite E-160, Rm E-156EmoryBiography
David R. Myers is currently an Assistant Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University and the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University. David’s varied interests have fueled an unusual educational background that fuses engineering, microsystem design, biology, and translational research. David received his PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, under the tutelage of one of the early microsystems pioneers, Albert P. Pisano, PhD. Driven by a desire to see new types of sensors in the clinic, David undertook a postdoctoral fellowship in biomedical and clinical research with Wilbur A. Lam, MD, PhD. Working at the intersection of these fields, David has authored or contributed to publications in Nature Materials, Nature Communications, PNAS, and Blood. He is the recipient of multiple NIH grants including an R21 Trailblazer Award, a K25, and several R01s.
Education
- Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, 2010 - University of California at Berkeley
- M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2007 - University of California at Berkeley
- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2004 - Virginia Commonwealth University
Affiliated Centers & Institutes
Research Interests
Lab Research: Our understanding of a system centers on our ability to quantitatively measure it, from elucidating how cells function to enabling better healthcare with accurate measurements of patient vital signs. To that end, the Sensors for Living Systems Lab (SL2) finds new ways to extract information from biological systems. We are especially interested in phenomena that occur at the microscale.
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