David R. Walt

Investment Partner , Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Investment Partner,Angel
Investor Stage
Seed

David is Professor in the Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. David is the Scientific Founder of Illumina Inc. and Quanterix Corp and has co-founded several other life sciences startups. David has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers and has over 75 issued US patents. He has received numerous national and international awards and honors for his fundamental and applied work in the field of optical microwell arrays and single molecules including the American Chemical Society Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success, Ralph Adams Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry, the American Chemical Society Gustavus John Esselen Award, Analytical Chemistry Spectrochemical Analysis Award, the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award, and the ACS National Award for Creative Invention. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He received a BS in Chemistry from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Chemical Biology from SUNY at Stony Brook, and did postdoctoral studies at MIT.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
1
David R. Walt has made 1 investments. Their most recent investment was on Apr 7, 2021, when Vizgen raised $37M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Apr 7, 2021 Vizgen Series B $37M Biotechnology Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
2
David R. Walt has 2 current jobs including Board Member at Protillion Biosciences , Co-Founder and Director at Sherlock Biosciences and .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Protillion Biosciences Board Member Dec 1, 2022 Detail
Sherlock Biosciences Co-Founder and Director Detail