Speaker Bio

Dr. Eric Eisenstadt is Vice-President for Research at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). Prior to joining JCVI, Dr. Eisenstadt was a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (from 1999 to 2005) where he developed and managed research programs in biotechnology. Dr. Eisenstadt also served as a Program Officer at the Office of Naval Research (1988-1999). From 1976 to 1988 Dr. Eisenstadt taught and did research on mutagenesis and DNA repair as a member of the faculty of the Harvard University School of Public Health in the Department of Microbiology and the Laboratory of Toxicology.

Dr. Eisenstadt earned his bachelor’s degree and doctorate in biology from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Following his graduate studies, he completed a one-year NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Université de Paris, Orsay, and a two-year Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Universität zu Köln. Dr. Eisenstadt was also a NIH Staff Fellow at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NINDS.