Primary Job Title Director Primary Organization Stellar Biotechnologies
Gender Male
Dr. Morse is Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry at UCSB; he received his B.A. degree in Biochemistry from Harvard, and Ph. D. in Molecular Biology from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He was awarded a Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health and a Faculty Research Award from the American Cancer Society;
honored as a Distinguished Faculty Scholar by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and as a Visiting Lecturer in Japan and the University of Paris; elected a Regents Fellow of the Smithsonian Institution; and elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Scientific American named him one of 50 leading technology pioneers of 2006 for his research on biologically inspired routes to nanostructured semiconductor thin films. He was honored as the 7th Kelly Lecturer in Materials and Chemistry by Cambridge and as the 3M Lecturer in Chemistry and Materials by the University of Vancouver. Dr. Morse is Director of the U.S. Army-sponsored UCSB-MIT-Caltech Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies.
