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Bernhard Ø. Palsson
Galetti Professor of Bioengineering
The University of California, San Diego
B.S., University of Kansas, 1979
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1984 |
| Bernhard Ø. Palsson is the Galetti Professor
of Bioengineering, with an adjunct
appointment in the Department of Medicine, at the University
of California, San Diego.
He received BS and PhD degrees in chemical
engineering from the University of Kansas and the
University of Wisconsin, respectively. Palsson taught
at the University of Michigan from 1984 to 1995
before to moving to UCSD. Since 2005 he has also
held an appointment at Keio University in Tokyo.
A prolific entrepreneur, Palsson has founded or
cofounded four start-up companies in the biotechnology
field.
Palsson is highly regarded for his pioneering
research in biotechnology and the computational
modeling of biological processes; in 2006 his laboratory
was highlighted for having developed one of
the most influential technologies over the past 10
years by Nature Biotechnology. He is a fellow of the
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and
a Fulbright Fellow. In
2000 he returned to Wisconsin as a visiting Hougen Professor.
Other honors include
a FIRST award from the National Institutes of Health and the
Lindbergh-Carrel Prize.
In 2006 Palsson was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
He has written
more than 240 scientific papers and has authored or edited
eight books. Palsson’s
most recent book, Systems Biology: Properties of Reconstructed
Networks, was published
in 2006. |
