Our team continues to grow with the recruitment of Dr. Winston Patrick Kuo, DDS, DMSc as the Chair of HBI’s Advisory Board! Dr. Kuo brings with him a deep and rich wealth of experience and expertise as a life science researcher AND entrepreneur. Dr. Kuo is the current Director of the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center – Laboratory for Innovative Translational Technologies (LITT) and an Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Dr. Kuo created LITT which accelerates the translation of laboratory research in therapeutics and diagnostics into the clinic utilizing innovative cutting-edge technologies. His group focuses on biomarker discovery to assay development to point of care diagnostics in the area of oncology. Dr. Kuo is a pioneer in the area of Bioinformatics in the Dental Medicine. He is the first dental trained “bioinformatician” seeking to bridge clinical dentistry and the dental basic sciences using “informatics” approaches. This will include both clinical informatics and bioinformatics approaches. We are very excited to welcome Dr. Kuo to our HBI family!