ENGINEERING
Undergraduate Degree:
Universidad EIA (Colombia)
Doctoral Degree:
Duke University
Felipe Quiroz
Felipe G. Quiroz trained as a biomedical engineer in his native Colombia before obtaining a PhD from the Biomedical Engineering department of Duke University. He then trained in cell biology as a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University. Dr. Quiroz is currently an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. Dr. Quiroz and his team mine protein self-assembly in engineered and biological material systems. He currently holds a Career Award at the Scientific Interface from Burroughs Welcome Fund.