Sanjay Kumar

Sanjay Kumar is Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Chair of the UC Berkeley & UCSF Graduate Program at UC Berkeley, Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Faculty Director of the UC Berkeley & UCSF Master of Translationl Medicine Program. He earned a B.S. in chemical engineering (1996) from the University of Minnesota and then moved on to Johns Hopkins University, where he earned an M.D. (2003) and a Ph.D. in molecular biophysics (2003). Since joining the UC Berkeley faculty in 2005, Dr. Kumar has been fortunate to receive a number of honors, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), The NIH Director's New Innovator Award, The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Hellman Family Faculty Fund Award, and the Stem Cells Young Investigator Award.