MIT snags UCSF synthetic biology expert Chris Voigt - 3rd high-profile loss for UCSF

One of UCSF’s brightest young scientists and a key member of the Bay Area’s emerging synthetic biology community is heading east.

Chris Voigt, an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco, described by The Scientist as "biology's toy maker," will join the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in July. He will be an associate professor of biological engineering and co-director of a center for synthetic biology.