Roy Dar

Roy Dar has several years of work experience in bioengineering, systems biology, and research. Roy began their career as a Student Research Assistant at Prof. Dan Davidov's lab in 2004, where they studied resonant heating of magnetite nanoparticles and scanning ferromagnetic resonance microscopy. In 2005, they joined Dr. Michael Simpson's MENT Group through the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program, where they researched the modeling and experimentation of stochastic processes in bacterial cells. This research resulted in a high-impact scientific publication.

Roy then pursued a Physics PhD with a concentration in biophysics and systems biology at the University of Tennessee starting in 2006. During this time, they also worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, focusing on the adaptation and stochasticity of natural complex systems.

In 2011, Roy became a Postdoctoral Fellow at The J. David Gladstone Institutes, where they conducted systems biology, experimental, and computational/mathematical analyses of HIV latency. Roy was involved in the Martin Delaney Collaboratory of AIDS Researchers for Eradication and affiliated with the UCSF Center for Systems & Synthetic Biology.

From 2015 to 2022, Roy served as an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Their lab focused on understanding and controlling fluctuations in gene expression to achieve desired biological functions, such as in diseases. Their research encompassed various areas, including controlling biological noise, characterizing dynamics in gene expression, and drug screening at the single-cell level. They also conducted systems biology projects using large-scale datasets coupled with modeling and experimentation.

Currently, Roy is working as a Research Manager at Pi-Cardia, starting in 2022.

Roy Dar earned their high school diploma from Los Altos High School in 1997. Roy then pursued a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, completing it from 2001 to 2004. Later, they attended the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where they obtained their Ph.D. in Physics, specializing in Biophysics and Systems Biology, from 2006 to 2011.