Thermo Fisher Scientific Appoints New Members to Scientific Advisory Board

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has appointed three new members to its Scientific Advisory Board: Dr Andrea Califano, Dr Arnold J. Levine and Dr Aviv Regev.

Dr Califano is the founding chairman of the department of systems biology at Columbia University, and he currently serves on the board of scientific advisors of the National Cancer Institute. He is also professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University.

Dr Levine is professor emeritus of systems biology at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ and professor of pediatrics and of biochemistry with the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Dr Regev is a core member of the Broad Institute and an associate professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

“As pioneers in their fields of study, Andrea, Arnold and Aviv are strong additions to our Scientific Advisory Board,” said Marc N. Casper, President and CEO of Thermo Fisher. “They bring a depth of understanding from the academic and research communities that will help inform our strategies for advancing our customers’ work in computational and systems biology, genomics and cancer research.”