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Frederic Zenhausern

Frederic Zenhausern is the founder, director and professor at the Center for Applied Nanobioscience at the Biodesign Institute (www.biodesign.asu.edu). Zenhausern received his B.S. in biochemistry from the University of Geneva, his M.B.A. in finance from Rutgers University and his Doctorate. Es Science. in interdisciplinary sciences from the department of Condensed Physics Matter at the University of Geneva.

Zenhausern has a joint faculty appointment as tenured Full Professor level with both the electrical department (http://www.eas.asu.edu/ee/faculty/affiliate/zenhausern.php)  and the new School of Materials at the Fulton School of Engineering. He is also the co-founder, principal investigator, Technical and International Development Director of the newly formed Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University, (http://flexdisplay.asu.edu/). Zenhausern is a senior faculty of the Cancer Center at Mayo Clinic. During his four years as a research scientist at IBM's Watson Research Center (NY), he co-developed the apertureless near-field optical system for applications ranging from DNA sequencing to high density mass data storage.

Zenhausern has held several research positions, including: Head of Physical Measurements Group (Firmenich Inc.), Vice President Advanced Technology (Alpha-MOS America, Inc.) and more recently Manager of Microdevice Physics (Motorola Labs). He is also a Senior Investigator at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), acting as Associate Director of Molecular Diagnostics and Target Validation (http://www.tgen.org). He is the co-founder of Nanobiomics and Senior Advisor for Technology Development at the Molecular Profiling Institute (www.molecularprofiling.com).

Zenhausern has co-authored more than 70 scientific publications and published more than a dozen of U.S. patents. He is an editorial board member of the Journal for Biological Engineering. He received several awards including 4 Invention Achievement awards (IBM) and several Silver Quill Awards (Motorola). In 2005, he received the Award of Life Sciences Startup of the Year from the Arizona Bioindustry Association. He received several teaching awards comprising the Honors Disciplinary Faculty Award form Barrett, The Honors College, and the 2006 Distinguished Nominee Professor of the Year Award, Arizona State University.