14 Facts About Stephen Quake

Stephen Ronald Quake was born on 1969 and is an American physicist, inventor, and entrepreneur.

Stephen Quake did his postdoctoral work at Stanford in single-molecule biophysics with Steven Chu.

Stephen Quake moved back to Stanford University in 2005 to help launch a new department in Bioengineering, where he is the Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics.

Stephen Quake is an Andrew D White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.

Stephen Quake was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for achievements in single-cell analysis and large-scale integration of microfluidic devices.

Stephen Quake has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Physical Society, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Stephen Quake has founded or co-founded several companies, including Fluidigm, Helicos Biosciences, Verinata Health, Quanticel Pharmaceuticals, Moleculo, Cellular Research and Immumetrix.

Stephen Quake is known for his new approaches to biological measurement.

Stephen Quake has made contributions to the field of microfluidics, including the invention of microfluidic large scale integration, and developed applications of microfluidics to structural biology, drug discovery, and molecular affinity measurements.

Stephen Quake has made contributions to the field of genomics, including single molecule DNA sequencing, techniques to perform single cell gene expression and genome sequencing, the development of non-invasive prenatal diagnostics to replace amniocentesis, prenatal genome sequencing, non-invasive tests for heart transplant rejection, and the development of approaches to sequence and analyze an individual's immune system.

Stephen Quake's genome was the subject of clinical annotation by a large team in the Stanford Hospital.

Since 2022, Stephen Quake has been the head of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Science division.

Stephen Quake is known as a former postdoctoral adviser to He Jiankui, the controversial scientist who purportedly created the world's first gene-edited babies.

Stephen Quake claimed he had told him not to proceed with the experiment.