Education
Johns Hopkins University.
Johns Hopkins University.
From 1991 until 2012 he was the Anna L. Rosen Professor of Biology and Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology, where he served as director of the Biological Imaging Center and the founding director of the Rosen Center for Biological Engineering. In September 2012 he moved to the University of Southern California, where he is a Provost Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Biological Science as well as the Director of Science Initiatives. He brought a team of several dozen associates with him from Caltech and is focusing on building interdisciplinary cooperation at the newly founded Translational Imaging Center at University of Southern California. He is known for his development of imaging techniques for the study of cellular morphogenesis.
Fraser began his scientific career studying physics (bachelor of science in Physics, Harvey Mudd College, 1976) and biophysics (doctoral degree in Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, 1979).
After Johns Hopkins, he took a faculty post at the University of California, Irvine, in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics where he served as chairman. In 1991, Fraser moved to Caltech to become the Anna L. Rosen Professor of Biology and build the Biological Imaging Center in Beckman Institute.
He worked with colleagues to establish the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech as well as the Caltech Brain Imaging Center, which he directed for five years. He has served as an advisor to several different biotech start up companies and national facilities, and has co-founded companies such as Clinical Micro Sensors.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.