New D-BSSE Professor Randall Platt
The ETH Board has appointed ten professors at ETH Zurich in accordance with the application submitted by ETH Zurich President Lino Guzzella.
Dr. Randall J. Platt (*1987), currently postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering. Randall Platt focuses his research on the analysis of pathogenic genetic defects. He has conducted pioneering work on genetically caused disorders, using genome editing methods he developed himself. Methods he has patented are now used in over 1000 laboratories. Randall Platt has found an ideal way to integrate systems biology and biological systems engineering. He will hold joint professorships at ETH Zurich and the University of Basel.