Aydogan Ozcan

University of California, Los Angeles

Aydogan Ozcan, Ph.D., is the Chancellor’s Professor and the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation at UCLA and an HHMI Professor with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is also the Associate Director of the California NanoSystems Institute. Ozcan is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Optica, AAAS, SPIE, IEEE, AIMBE, RSC, APS, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Ozcan is also listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Web of Science, Clarivate. To commercialize virtual staining technology, Ozcan cofounded Pictor Labs, a spinoff company from his lab at UCLA, where he led the company formation, fundraising, and technology transfer from UCLA.