Anita Goel
FROM:
Mississippi and Massachusetts.
HEROES:
Linus Pauling; Einstein; Tesla; Ghandi
PROUDEST ACCOMPLISHMENT:
Innovating technologies that will improve healthcare worldwide.
SOMETHING YOU MIGHT TEACH AT THE SUMMIT:
The power of science and technology to renew America.
SOMETHING YOU HOPE TO LEARN AT THE SUMMIT:
How a small group of like-minded people can bring about global change.
SOMETHING YOU ARE STRUGGLING WITH IN YOUR WORK:
The challenge of too little time.
SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY:
The process of innovating, creating new ideas and translating them to drive positive global impact.
TELL US ABOUT YOUR FAMILY:
I grew up in Mississippi in the rural south of the 1970s. My dad is a medical doctor and surgeon. We were the only Indian family in a tiny town where black and white people lived on different sides of the railroad. There was lots of green and nature around us. We had chickens, rabbits and peacocks in our backyard. My parents sent us to an all-white racially segregated school and a Southern Baptist Church to learn local culture. It was an interesting adventure.
AN IDEA TO MAKE THE 30SUMMIT EVEN BETTER:
I'd love to do a CNN Crossfire-type session with the audience.
BIOGRAPHY:
Anita Goel MD, Ph.D. is a Harvard‐MIT trained physicist and physician. 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. Anita was named one of the world’s "top 35 science and technology innovators under the age of 35" by MIT’s Technology Review Magazine. She is also 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.
