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Polly Fordyce is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and the Department of Genetics at Stanford University. She is a fellow of the Chan Zuckerberg Institute and the director of the Stanford Microfluidics Foundry. Dr. Fordyce's research focuses on developing and applying microfluidic platforms for quantitative, high-throughput biophysics, biochemistry, and single-cell genomics. She is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder with degrees in physics and biology and earned her Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University working on single-molecule studies of kinesin motor proteins. Her postdoctoral work involved developing a new microfluidic platform to investigate transcription factors that bind to DNA targets. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the NIH New Innovator Pioneer Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and the 2023 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry. Her lab utilizes microfluidics technology to perform unprecedented quantitative measurements essential for advancing understanding of molecular interactions that govern cellular functions.
Stanford University • Stanford, California
Teaching and conducting research in Bioengineering and Genetics.
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