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David Baltimore, PhD
Axel Scherer, PhD
David
Baltimore, PhD, Co-Founder
Dr. David Baltimore is currently
President Emeritus and Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of
Biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He
was president of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS) in 2007 and as is traditional in the AAAS, he now
serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for AAAS. From
October 1997 to September 2006, Dr. Baltimore was the President
of Caltech. Dr. Baltimore was at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) from 1968 to 1997, rising to Institute
Professor, MIT's highest rank. In 1982, Dr. Baltimore was
appointed founding director of MIT's Whitehead Institute, where
he remained through June 1990. He was also President of
Rockefeller University. His research focuses on cancer,
immunology and virology. Dr. Baltimore is a director of Amgen,
Inc. and BB Biotech, AG, a Swiss investment company. In 1975,
Dr. Baltimore was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Axel Scherer, PhD,
Co-Founder
Axel Scherer is the Bernard A.
Neches professor of electrical engineering, applied physics, and
physics at California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He
specializes in device microfabrication and packaging. He
graduated from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in
1985, and has worked in the Quantum Device Fabrication group at
Bellcore for the following 8 years. In the past, Dr. Scherer has
focused on improving the state of the art of semiconductor
microfabrication, which resulted in the development of the
smallest vertical cavity lasers (400 nm wide), some of the
world's smallest etched structures (6 nm wide), as well as
ultra-narrow gratings (30 nm pitch). He has also been working on
reducing the sizes of microlasers and changing their emission
wavelengths. Dr. Scherer's research laboratory is built around
producing nanostructures and applying them to new optoelectronic,
magneto-optic and high-speed electronic devices. The aim of his
research group is to develop functional devices that use their
reduced geometries to obtain higher speed, greater efficiencies,
and can be integrated into systems in large numbers. Dr. Scherer
is a founder of, and advisor to, Luxtera, Inc.
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