Michael Fischbach

Michael Fischbach is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University and a Stanford ChEM-H Institute Scholar. Fischbach is a recipient of the NIH Director's Pioneer and New Innovator Awards, an HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholars Award, a Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, a Medical Research Award from the W.M. Keck Foundation, and a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease award. His laboratory uses a combination of genomics, microbiology, synthetic biology, and chemistry to study microbiome-host interactions and construct synthetic microbiomes with defined functions. Fischbach received his Ph.D. as a John and Fannie Hertz Foundation Fellow in chemistry from Harvard in 2007. Fischbach is a member of the board of directors of Achaogen, the scientific advisory board of NGM Biopharmaceuticals, and a co-founder of Revolution Medicines.