Overview

Gender

male

Adam is an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) with Artiman. Since 2011 Adam has been a Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Chemistry at UC Berkeley under Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi. In September 2012, Adam will assume an Assistant Professor position at the department of Structural Biology at the Stanford School of Medicine.

Adam is interested in designing new molecular imaging technologies and exploring their application for cancer and ophthalmic imaging.

Among the awards Adam received are: the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011), Jane Coffin Childs Fellowship (2011; offered but not taken), Era of Hope Distinguished Predoctoral Poster Award (2011), Best Poster Presentation at SPIE Photonics West (2009), the Young Investigator Award at the World Molecular Imaging Congress (2008), the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program Award for Predoctoral researchers (2008), the Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowship (2008), and first place at the Bay Area Entrepreneurship Contest (2007).

He published over 13 papers in leading journals including Nature Medicine, Nature Nanotechnology, Nano Letters, and PNAS, some of which received significant press coverage from Forbes Magazine, US News and The Washington Post.

He holds a number of patents and is the co-founder of a medical imaging device company, OcuBell Inc.