Daniel Levner's Biography

Daniel Levner, Chief Technology Officer, Emulate, Inc.

Daniel Levner, PhD, is Chief Technology Officer at Emulate, Inc. A serial deep-tech entrepreneur, Dr. Levner co-founded Emulate and brings to it extensive experience in biological and engineering technology development and commercialization. Dr. Levner joined Emulate's founding team during his role as a Senior Staff Scientist at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. There, he led the advanced engineering team responsible for developing the Emulate Organs-on-Chips platform and played a key leadership role formulating innovative approaches for bridging biologists, engineers, and business stakeholders.

Prior to directing the Organs-on-Chips program, Dr. Levner worked with world-renowned Harvard geneticist Prof. George M. Church in programs related to medical diagnostics, DNA/RNA sequencing, and multiplexed biological sample analysis techniques. As an entrepreneur, Dr. Levner also co-founded a medical diagnostics company, and earlier in his career, an optical telecommunications startup company.

Dr. Levner received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University as well as an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, also from Stanford. He has authored numerous publications and more than 70 issued and pending patents.