Walter Funk

Dr. Funk is Vice President of Research at Nuvelo where he leads internal gene discovery efforts. Prior to joining Nuvelo, he was a founding scientist at Geron Corporation where he served as a project leader on molecular biology projects focused on telomerase biology, cell immortalization, and senescence. He later led the company's genomics efforts in human stem cell biology. Dr. Funk did post-doctoral work at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in the labs of Woodring Wright and Jerry Shay and received his Ph.D. and B.Sc. (Hon) degrees in biochemistry from the University of British Columbia. He has published more than 30 journal papers and is an assignee on seven U.S. patents.