Daniel Levner PhD

Daniel Levner, PhD, is Chief Technology Officer at Emulate, Inc., a company that is creating a new living system that emulates human biology, for understanding how different diseases, medicines, chemicals and foods may affect human health. Prior to joining Emulate’s founding team, Dr. Levner was a Senior Staff Scientist with the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, where he led the advanced engineering team responsible for developing Emulate’s Organs-on-Chips platform. There, Dr. Levner played a key leadership role, formulating approaches to foster close collaboration between biologists and engineers. Prior to the Wyss Institute, Dr. Levner worked with world-renowned Harvard geneticist Prof. George M. Church in programs related to medical diagnostics, DNA/RNA sequencing tools, and multiplexed analysis techniques. As an entrepreneur, Dr. Levner co-founded a medical diagnostics startup company, and earlier in his career, an optical telecommunications startup company. Dr. Levner received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University as well as an M.S. in aeronautics and astronautics, also from Stanford. He has authored numerous publications and more than 25 issued and pending patents.