Bioengineering Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Dino Di Carlo!

Meet Dr. Dino Di Carlo, a member of the Bioengineering department. Read on to learn more about him!

Background?
BS and PhD at UC Berkeley. 2 years as a postdoc at Harvard Medical School. Professor at UCLA since 2008.

Overview of Research?
We develop tools to automate life science research, diagnostics, and drug discovery at the ultimate "quantum" limits of single cells and molecules

What courses do you teach?
BE 255, BE 298: Biotechnology of Cell Therapies

What are your hobbies?
Gardening, Traveling (when it is safe!), Eating :)

If you had a time machine, when would you travel to and why?
The Future...hopeful of seeing the immense technological and scientific progress.

If you could tell your undergraduate self anything, what would it be?
Definitely learn the O Chem!

If you had a theorem or special number named after you, what would be the first thing you do to celebrate this?
Travel to Tokyo and have a fruit parfait at Takano's fruit parlor in Shinjuku.