Biographical Information Krishna Kumar, Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry Pearson Chemistry Laboratory  Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 Tel: (617) 627-5651;  Fax: (617) 627-3443  E-mail: (born Madras, India - Nov 1970) Education Skaggs Research Fellow, Scripps Research Institute & Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, 1996-98 Ph.D., 1996, Brown University B.Sc. (Hons.), 1991, St. Stephen's College  Positions Professor of Chemistry, (2006-present) Tufts University, Medford, MA Chair, Department of Chemistry, (2006-2009) Tufts University, Medford, MA Member, Cancer Center, (2007-present) Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA Visiting Scientist, (2004-2005) Center for Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA Adjunct Professor, (2002-present) Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University Associate Professor of Chemistry, (2003-2006) Tufts University, Medford, MA Associate Member, Cancer Center, (1999-2006) Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA Assistant Professor of Chemistry, (1998-2003) Tufts University, Medford, MA Recent Awards and Honors Global Indus Technovator Award (2006) MIT IBC, Cambridge, MA Technology Investigation Award (2005) Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center, Boston, MA MIT Technology Review Magazine TR100 Award (2003) Top 100 Young Innovators in the World DuPont Young Professor Award (2003-2006) E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. NSF CAREER Award (2002) National Science Foundation Guest Professor, Westfälische Wilhelms–Universität, Münster, Germany (2000) Sonderforschungsbereich 424 Teaching with Technology (TTT) Fellow (1999) Academic Technology, Tufts University, Medford, MA