Mitchel J. Doktycz

Mitchel J. Doktycz is a Corporate Fellow and heads the Bioimaging and Analytics Section in the Biosciences Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He is also a member of the Research Staff in the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at ORNL and is also a faculty member with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in the UT-ORNL Bredesen Center. He received his B.S. in Biology and Chemistry in 1985 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1991 from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests focus on the intersection of natural and synthetic systems.  His laboratory is involved in the development of analytical technologies for post-genomics studies with specific emphases on molecular and cellular imaging techniques and the use of nanomaterials to study and mimic biological systems. He has received an R&D 100 Award and National Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer.  He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.