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David V. Schaffer, Ph.D. |
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Dave is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1993. Afterward, he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned his Ph.D. also in Chemical Engineering in 1998 with Professor Doug Lauffenburger. While at M.I.T., Dave minored in Molecular and Cell Biology. Finally, Dave did a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Fred Gage at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, CA before coming to UC Berkeley. |
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- Associate Director of the Berkeley Stem Cell Center, 2007-current
- Robert W. Vaughan Lectureship, California Institute of Technology, 2008
- American Chemical Society Biochemical Technology Division Young Investigator Award, 2006
- Van Ness Award Lecturer, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2005
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2001-2006
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator, 2001-2004
- Technology Review Magazine “Top 100 Innovator Under 35,” 2002
- The Biomedical Engineering Society Rita Shaffer Young Investigator Award, 2000
- U.C. Berkeley Wills Neuroscience Institute Member, 1999
- Regents' Junior Faculty Award, 1999
- NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship (Individual NRSA), 1998
- MIT Department of Chemical Engineering Outstanding Seminar Award, 1997
- NIH Cell and Molecular Biology Training Program, 1993-1995
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1993 (declined)
- Whitaker Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1993 (declined)
- Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1993 (accepted)