SOME EMERGING FRONTIERS OF NANOBIOPHYSICS

AND ITS IMPACT ON THE SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY DIALOGUE

Anita Goel

Nanobiosym, Inc.
200 Boston Avenue, Suite 4700
Medford, MA 02155

Dr. Anita Goel, MD, PhD is the Chairman, and Scientific Director of Nanobiosym Labs and the President and CEO of Nanobiosym Diagnostics. Nanobiosym Labs was founded to create scientific insights and technologies that emerge from the holistic integration of physics, nanotechnology and biomedicine. Nanobiosym Diagnostics is the commercial arm of Nanobiosym that is developing next-generation rapid diagnostic capabilities.

Dr. Goel’s pioneering contributions to nanobiophysics and nanobiotechnology over the past 15 years have been recognized globally by several prestigious honors and awards. Her work at Nanobiosym has received prominent funding awards from the United States Department of Defense agencies including Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and US Dept of Energy (DOE) and US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

Dr. Goel holds both a PhD in Physics from Harvard University and an MD from the Harvard-MIT Joint Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and a BS in Physics from Stanford University. She was named in 2005 as one of the world’s “Top 35 science and technology innovators under the age of 35 by the MIT Technology Review Magazine and in 2006 received the Global Indus Technovator Award from MIT, an honor recognizing the contributions of top 10 leaders working at the forefront of science, technology, and entrepreneurship.

Dr. Goel is a Fellow of the World Technology Network, a Fellow-at-Large of the Santa Fe Institute, an Associate of the Harvard Physics Department, and an Adjunct Professor of the BEYOND Institute for Fundamental Concepts in Science. She also serves on the Board of Trustees and Scientific Advisory Board of India-Nano, an organization devoted to bridging breakthrough advances in nanotechnology with the burgeoning Indian hi-tech sector. While at Stanford, Dr. Goel organized the international SETU conference and think tank which brought together world leaders to build new bridges between the world’s two largest democracies: the U.S. and India.

As a Harvard-MIT trained physicist and physician, Dr. Anita Goel, has a longstanding interest in molecular motors that read DNA. She harnesses both theoretical concepts and experimental technologies from modern physics to probe the dynamics of molecular nanomachines as they read and write information into DNA. Probing these living systems at the single molecule level, she has a deep interest in elucidating the “Physics of Life and Living Systems.” With a special focus in the foundational questions of Quantum Mechanics, she is also exploring whether quantum processes could play a nontrivial role in life.