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Dr. Collins is a University Professor, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Co-Director of the Center for BioDynamics at Boston University. He received a doctorate in medical engineering from the University of Oxford in 1990. Dr. Collins is one of the founders of the emerging field of synthetic biology, and a pioneering research in systems biology. His honors include a Rhodes Scholarship, a MacArthur "genius award", an NIH Director's Pioneer Award, an Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar Award in Aging, and being selected for the inaugural Technology Review TR100 (top young innovators) and the Scientific American 50 (top outstanding leaders in science and technology). Dr. Collins is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. | 