David E. Wolf, Ph.D.
Boston Biophysics
Chief Scientific Officer with a proven track record of leading diverse research teams and delivering innovative biomedical, optical, and photonic products. Provides a physicist’s reductionist analysis and problem-solving approach combined with business management skills.
- Extensive expertise with a broad range of optical and biotechnology markets including: medical devices, medical diagnostics, biodefense, nanosensing, cell encapsulation therapeutics, and tissue engineering.
- Human hemodynamic monitor to predict the onset of hemorrhagic and septic shock
- Single molecule detection systems
- Implantable continuous glucose monitoring system
- Air biofiltration system for removal of volatile organic compounds
- Demonstrated leadership ability: knows how to promote team consensus and provide the leadership to deliver complex, innovative products to market in a timely fashion
- Highly successful grant writer
Employment History:
President, Boston Biophysics (2018-present)
Provides short and long-term expertise to the biotechnology, optical sensing, and materials science industries
Vice President Technology Development, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry (2016 – 2018)
Member of senior management team: developed federal grant portfolio and led successful grant-funded programs
Director of Diagnostic Applications, Pendar Technologies (2014-2015)
Key member of strategic development team: worked with the Director of BD and the CEO to define applications & markets for the company’s core Resonance Raman Spectroscopy-based sensing and monitoring technologies
Director Optics and Photonics Group, Radiation Monitoring Devices (2009-2014)
Provided scientific & business leadership to a diverse optics & photonics product development team: biomedical imaging & sensing, single molecule detection, super-resolution imaging, high speed detection, & optical quality ceramics
Vice President for R&D, Chief Scientific Officer, Sensor & BioHybrid Technologies (1995 – 2009)
Led product teams that: 1. brought to market the world’s first, user-friendly, bench-top Fluorescence Correlation Spectrometer (FCS); 2. brought to clinical trial readiness implantable subcutaneous fluorescence-based glucose sensor
Professor of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School (1997 – 2002)
Senior Scientist, Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology (1987 – 1997)
Staff Scientist, Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology (1981 – 1987)
Led research programs on cellular activation in mammalian neurodevelopment, fertilization, & early development
Education:
Cornell University PhD and MS in Physics
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York BS in Physics
Post Education:
“Patent Bar Review Course,” Patent Resources Group
“Quantitative Cardiovascular Physiology and Clinical Applications for Engineers,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Key Professional Activities
Director and organizer of the AQLM Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA (1990-2012), regarded as the world’s premier course in light microscopy, digital imaging, and image processing.
Editor and major contributor to the text Digital Microscopy (now in its fourth edition).
(c) DE Wolf 2019