Dr. Daniel Fletcher is Professor of Bioengineering and Biophysics at UC Berkeley and the Pernendu Chatterjee Chair of Engineering Biological Systems. He and his laboratory develop devices and algorithms for disease diagnosis, with a special interest in neglected tropical diseases, and they investigate molecular mechanisms of pathogen infection and immune evasion. Dr. Fletcher is a Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Member of the Biophysics and Computational Biology Graduate Groups, Visiting Investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Virology, and currently serves as Faculty Director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley. Dr. Fletcher received a B.S. from Princeton University, a D.Phil. from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. He is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and served as a White House Fellow in the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the beginning of the Obama administration.