Daniel L Farkas

Background

Farkas, Daniel L was born on November 15, 1951 in Arad, Romania. Son of Kathy and Laszlo Nicholas Farkas.

Education

Master of Science, University of Bucharest, 1970—1975. Doctor of Philosophy, Feinberg Graduate School, The Weizmann Institute, Israel, 1977—1982.

Career

Church Weizmann fellow and fulbright scholar University of California at San Diego, 1982—1983. Vice-chairman and professor Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, since 2002. Director Minimally Invasive Surgical Technologies Institute, since 2002.

Associate director Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative, since 1995. Adjunct professor, robotics Carnegie Mellon University, since 1998. Research scientist and fulbright scholar University of Washington, Seattle, 1983—1984.

Senior scientist/assistant professor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, 1985—1987. Visiting assistant professor University of Connecticut, 1987—1988. Biotechnology applications manager Perceptics/Westinghouse Corporation, Pittsburgh, 1989—1991.

Director, machine vision and applications Biological Detection Systems, Inc., 1991—1992. Associate director National Science and Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University, 1992—1996, director/science director, 1996—2002. Professor of bioengineering University of Pittsburgh, 1998—2002.

Director Center for Bioimaging and Biotechnology (PA Center of Excellence), Pittsburgh, 1995—1997. Symposia committee member International Society for Optical Engineering, 1997—2003. Director BioImaging Laboratories, Pittsburgh, 1998—2002.

Conference chair United Engineering Foundation, Banff, Canada, 2001. Track chair (12 symposia) World Biophysics Congress, Sidney, Australia, 2003. Conference chair Advanced Optical Imaging for Modern Medicine I and II, Berlin, 1999—2000, Keystone Symposium on Advanced Optical Imaging: Applications to Cancer, Neurosciences and Tissue Engineering, Taos, New Mexico, 2003.

Executive committee member Pittsburgh Biomedical Business Network, 1998—2002. Conference chair Functional Imaging and Optical Manipulation of Living Cells and Tissues, San Jose, California, 1993—2003. Study section and panel member National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, since 1992.

Co-director Whitaker Foundation course on Digital Imaging and Laser Methods in Microscopy, Chicago, Illinois, 1995. Science advisory board member Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Baltimore, since 1993. Executive committee member Biomedical Optics Society, since 1997.

Science advisory council member Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green, Ohio, since 1997.

Achievements

• Daniel L Farkas has been listed as a noteworthy biophysicist, medical researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Miriam Reusz, August 26, 1971. 1 child Doron Roy.

Father:

Kathy Farkas

Mother:

Laszlo Nicholas Farkas

Spouse:

Miriam Reusz

child:

Doron Roy Farkas