Daniel L. Farkas was trained in Theoretical Physics in Romania, and holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics and Biochemistry from the Weizmann Institute in Israel, where he received a number of honors (Yashinsky Outstanding Graduate Student Prize, EMBO and UNESCO fellowships, Aharon Katchalsky-Katzir Award). He came to the United States as a Fulbright scholar (also holding a Dr. Chaim Weizmann fellowship), conducted research at UC San Diego and Univ. of Washington, Seattle, and was also a Fulbright lecturer at UC Berkeley. After junior faculty appointments in the US and at the Weizmann Institute, he settled at Carnegie Mellon University as Associate Director and then Director of the Center for Light Microscope Imaging and Biotechnology (1992-2002), a National Science and Technology Center that won the Smithsonian Award for Science in 1996. Simultaneously, at the University of Pittsburgh he was Professor Bioengineering and Pathology, Director of the BioImaging Laboratories, and held core faculty appointments in the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the Univ. of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.
