Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Nicholas Durr is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he directs a computational biophotonics research group. His group creates and translates new imaging technologies to address healthcare needs in ophthalmology, gastroenterology, pathology, point-of-care diagnostics, global health, and surgery. He teaches the medical device design program at Hopkins and has co-founded and supported several MedTech start-up companies. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2003 and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UT Austin in 2010. He was an M+Visión Fellow at MIT from 2011 to 2014. In 2013 he co-founded PlenOptika, which he led as CEO until he joined Hopkins in 2016.