Denis Wirtz

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Full Name	Denis Wirtz
Occupation	Scientist
Date Of Birth	Feb 20, 1965(1965-02-20)
Age	59
Birthplace	Brussels
Country	Belgium
Horoscope	Aquarius

Denis Wirtz Biography

Denis Wirtz is one of the most popular and richest Scientist who was born on February 20, 1965 in Brussels, Belgium. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award for: “A Research and Teaching Program in Complex Fluids Dynamics.”. He was awarded the award in 1997. was awarded the Whitaker Foundation’s Biomedical Engineering Award. With Benjamin Shapiro, Elisabeth Smela and Pamela Ann Abshire, Wirtz was named an award in

2004. Physical Science Invention of the Year Award by the University of Maryland Office of Technology Commercialization. The team developed the concept of a Cell Sensor Based Pathogen Detection that allows “selective pathogen detection through the use of the signalizing mechanism in living cells.

Denis Wirtz was born in the Ixelles municipality in Brussels, Belgium. He speaks fluently English as well as French and became an U.S. citizen in 2007. Wirtz received an Physics Engineering degree at the Ecole Polytechnique of the Universite libre of Bruxelles from 1988. Through the assistance of a Hoover Fellowship from the Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) and a BAEF Scholarship, he was awarded an M.S. as well as a Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University where he worked under the guidance by Gerald G. Fuller in polymer Physics. He was then awarded an honorary fellowship under the EU’s Human Capital and Mobility program to conduct postdoctoral research alongside the 1991 Nobel Laureate in Physics Pierre-Gilles de Gennes at the Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI) located in Paris, France. He was appointed to on the faculty at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1994 and was elevated to Full Professor in the year 2003. He was chosen to become named the Theophilus Halley Smoot Professor in Engineering Science by President Ronald J. Daniels and the Board of Trustees, with second positions in the department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pathology and Oncology in which he works with other researchers at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.

In February 2014, Wirtz was named the Vice Provost for Research at Johns Hopkins University. In announcing the Wirtz’s appointment, Provost Robert C. Lieberman stated, “As is obvious to all who know him, Denis is an extremely productive and accomplished faculty member and a wonderful colleague. Those traits will serve both Denis and the university as he works with me to support important multidisciplinary research projects, including the strategic initiatives identified in the campaign, the Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships, and multidivisional proposals in response to RFAs (requests for applications).”

Wirtz was named Vice Provost for Research in February 2014, charged with directing the university’s $2.24 billion research enterprise, the largest in the United States, implementing institutional research compliance, expanding research development, and producing and managing cross-divisional research initiatives, such as the Johns Hopkins Catalyst and Discovery Awards program, the President’s Frontier Award program, and the Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships, which were established as part of a $350 million gift by Michael Bloomberg.

PSOC PSOC forms part of the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) which Wirtz co-founded and serves as director of INBT as associate. INBT was founded in 2006, with the support of U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski in order to “promote multidisciplinary research at the interface of nanotechnology and medicine.” With more than 250 professors from Johns Hopkins schools of Engineering, Arts and Sciences, Medicine as well as Public Health and scientists from the Applied Physics Laboratory, the institute houses a variety of center grants as well as a variety of education outreach, training, and education programs. INBT has Becton Dickinson, MedImmune, Northrop Grumman, Secant Medical along with Under Armour among its corporate partners. Wirtz has been an Nikon Partnership in Science since 2008.

Denis Wirtz Net Worth

Denis Wirtz is one of the richest Scientist from Belgium. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Denis Wirtz 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Wirtz is the principal investigator of the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site that is part of the Nanotechnology for Biology as well as Bioengineering program. Wirtz has also established his own Johns Hopkins Center for Digital Pathology which brings together surgeons, pathologists oncologists, engineers, and surgeons to create new single-cell technologies to improve diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic strategies for human diseases such as cancer, chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and frailty as we age. He also co-directs the Cancer Nanotechnology Training Center, another NCI-funded institution. Between 2005 and 2012, he was the director of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) which funded an interdisciplinary graduate training program on nanotechnology for medicine and biology. The program was designed to produce researchers who could create new particles and materials that can use in the diagnosis of, treatment, prevention and treatment of human diseases. It enlisted undergraduates from biochemistry, chemical biology, physics, and engineering, making an effort to incorporate minority groups that are not represented in sciences.

Denis Wirtz was elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2006 in recognition of “major contributions in molecular cell mechanics and the development of particle tracking methods for cell and molecular biology.” In 2009, he received the title of as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009 “for contributions to cell micromechanics and cell adhesion and for the development and application of particle tracking methods to probe the micromechanical properties of living cells in normal conditions and disease state.” Wirtz was named a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010 for “his seminal contributions to the understanding of basic cellular functions through the development and application of novel biophysical methods grounded in statistical mechanics and polymer physics.” In the year 2011 the scientist was elected a to the Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF).

Since 2008, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of Cell Health and the Cytoskeleton. He is on the Editorial Boards of Scientific Reports, Cell Adhesion & Migration, World Journal of Biological Chemistry, and TECHNOLOGY. Wirtz formerly served on the editorial boards of Physical Biology, Journal of the Royal Society Interface Focus, Biophysical Journal, Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, as an ad hoc editor for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, as the guest editor of a Special Issue of Physical Biology on physical oncology, and as the editor of the Cell Biophysics section of Comprehensive Biophysics. Wirtz also served as an expert advisor to the study panel of the international Assessment of Physical sciences and Engineering advances in Life sciences and Oncology (APHELION), which was commissioned by the National Cancer Institute and National Science Foundation in order to “determine the status and trends of applying physical sciences and engineering principles to oncology research and development in leading laboratories and organizations in Europe via an on- site peer review process.”

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Upon his appointment as the Theophilius Halley Smoot Professor of Engineering Physics by President Ronald J. Daniels and the Board of Trustees, Dr. Nicholas Jones, former dean of the Whiting School of Engineering, stated, “Throughout his time at Johns Hopkins, Denis has distinguished himself as an outstanding scholar and teacher. Additionally, Denis’ role as a catalyst for interdisciplinary research and collaboration at the university has proven extremely effective, both in terms of the research he conducts and the support he has attracted over the years. I am confident that his current research into the physical basis for cell adhesion and de-adhesion will prove critical to our understanding of the metastasis of cancer and enable important breakthroughs in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in the years to come.”

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Top Facts about Denis Wirtz

1. Denis Wirtz is a Belgian molecular biologist born in 1965.
2. He is the Vice Provost for Research at Johns Hopkins University.
3. Wirtz has published over 200 scientific papers and holds 10 patents.
4. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
5. Wirtz’s research focuses on cell mechanics and cancer metastasis.
6. He received his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
7. Wirtz has won numerous awards including the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award.
8. He co-founded two biotech companies: Ascent Bio-Nano Technologies and NexImmune Inc.
9. Wirtz serves on several editorial boards including Science Advances and Biophysical Journal.
10. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).