Kenneth Kotz's Biography

Kenneth Kotz, Assistant in Bioengineering & Instructor, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Dr. Kotz is a scientist with a faculty appointment at the Harvard Medical School. His main research focus is the integration of optics, microfluidics, and sensors to improve blood diagnostics. Ken received his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in physical chemistry and later trained at SRI International, where he built complex optical systems for cell- and tissue-based diagnostics. Since joining MGH, he has focused on working with large teams of clinicians and researchers to create new blood processing and monitoring tools. He developed a novel cell isolation technology for a large multicenter clinical genomics and proteomics study. He has also created new microminature tools for the optical detection of cells in whole blood. In addition to his research role at MGH, he is a co-founder of General Fluidics, Corp., which aims to incorporate diagnostic technologies into new medical devices for point-of-care monitoring of patients.