Anita Goel

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birth_place = Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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residence = United States
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nationality = American
field = Physicist and physician
work_institutions = Harvard University
alma_mater = Harvard University
MIT
Harvard Medical School
Stanford University
doctoral_advisor = Dudley Robert Herschbach
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known_for = Molecular motors
Nanobiophysics
Nanotechnology
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Anita Goel is a Harvard-MIT trained physicist and physician in the United States. She is notable for her research at the nano-bio level, particularly for the study of molecular mechanics behind the reading and writing of information in DNA.

She obtained her PhD in 2002 from the Physics Department at Harvard University, under the Nobel Prize winner Dudley R. Herschbach, with a thesis entitled "Single Molecule Dynamics of Motor Enzymes Along DNA." She also holds an MD from the Harvard-MIT Joint Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST).

Goel was named one of the world’s "top 35 science and technology innovators under the age of 35" by MIT’s Technology Review Magazine [ [http://www.geneticsandhealth.com/2005/12/09/dr-anita-goel-studying-dna-using-physics/ Dr. Anita Goel - Studying DNA Using Physics ] ] . She is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Nanobiosym, Inc. Her work at Nanobiosym has been recognized by a number of prestigious funding awards from the United States Department of Defense and DARPA, DTRA, and US Department of Energy. The recipient of numerous honors and an esteemed speaker at major international conferences, Goel has quickly emerged as a leading researcher in the field of nanobiophysics and nanobiotechnology. She is a Fellow of the World Technology Network, a Fellow-at-Large of the Santa Fe Institute,an Adjunct Professor at the Beyond Institute for Fundamental Concepts in Physics,and an Associate of the Harvard Physics Department. She serves as a Trustee and Scientific Advisor to India-Nano, an organization devoted to bridging breakthrough advances in nanotechnology with the burgeoning US and Indian nanotech sectors. While an undergraduate at Stanford University, Goel envisioned a human bridge between the two largest democracies in the world: the U.S. and India. Inspired by this vision, Goel founded SETU (Sanskrit for “bridge”), an international conference and think tank comprised of world leaders from academic, business, political, and humanitarian sectors dedicated to bridging these two democracies.

ee also

* "Quantum Aspects of Life"

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External links

* [http://www.nanobiosym.com/ Nanobiosym Website]
* [http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~goel/ Goel's Harvard homepage]
* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/anitagoel Goel's LinkedIn profile]
* [http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/people/goel.cfm Goel at physics central]
* [http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5389.php Goel at US Senate hearing]
* [http://www.nanobiosym.com/ Nanobiosym Website]
* [http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2008/04/21/businesswire20080421005480r1.html/ Forbes Article on Goel's Senate Testimony]
* [http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nnano.2008.190.html Goel's scientific article on molecular motors published in Nature Nanotechnology]
* [http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/goel.html/ Lemelson MIT Inventors Archive]