Michael W Deem

Michael W Deem

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Michael W Deem happens to be a General Partner with SmartHealth Catalyzer and CEO of a startup. He was once an Entrepreneur in Residence at Khosla Ventures. At Khosla, Michael was responsible for reviewing companies for portfolio inclusion, incubating startups, and mentoring portfolio companies. He worked in living science and sustainability areas. Michael is definitely an American engineer, scientist, and inventor.

Dr. Deem was with Rice University from 2002-2020. At Rice, he was the John W. Cox Professor of Bioengineering and Physics & Astronomy. He was chair of Bioengineering Department from 2014 to 2017. He was the founding director of the Graduate Program in Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology. This was the initial PhD program in the US with ‘Synthetic Biology'in the title.

Michael's expertise lies in living sciences and nanoporous materials. The Michael Deem Rice University group made many contributions. Among Michael's fields of specializations are synthetic biology, evolution, vaccines, statistical mechanics, and zeolites.

Michael was a secretary and associate professor at UCLA, 1996-2002. He received his BS from the California Institute of Technology, PhD from UC Berkeley. He received a postdoctoral fellowship from Harvard University.

Michael is a skilled senior professional. He has operated in senior management, Board, and advisor capacities. His intellectual bandwidth has benefited companies from a wide cross element of industries. He has advanced life sciences, artificial intelligence, genomics, data science, biotechnology, energy, and cancer research.

Dr. Deem has published over 200 papers. He has given over 300 invited talks. He is listed being an inventor on 16 US patents. Michael W. Deem Rice University and UCLA professor has mentored a huge selection of students and taught over 10000 of undergraduates.

Michael has made significant contributions to bioengineering, physics, and chemical engineering. He developed the widely used tools DIFFAX and ZEFSA for materials science. He created the widely used database of predicted zeolite structures. He invented the hierarchical approach to protein molecular evolution. He developed the pEpitope solution to characterize vaccine effectiveness and antigenic distance for influenza. He developed the idea of modularity for biological evolution. He showed that changing environmental pressures lead to the spontaneous emergence of modularity in biological systems. He showed the importance of cross-species genetic exchange for rapid evolution. He developed the polytopic vaccination method for sculpting the immune a reaction to multi-strain pathogens. He created an idea of the competition for use of antigen that enables HIV to flee recognition by the immune system. He has made major contributions to Monte Carlo simulation methods. He is widely known being an innovator. For these contributions, and others, Mike Deem received numerous awards.

Michael enjoys life, work, and play. He is a devoted rock climber. He enjoys high-performance cars. And he is a long-time Taekwondo practitioner.