Wilbur Lam's Biography

Wilbur Lam, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute Of Technology

Wilbur A. Lam, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Pediatrics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University and is a physician-scientist-engineer with backgrounds in pediatric hematology/oncology and bioengineering. Dr. Lam obtained his BA in biosciences from Rice University, MD from Baylor College of Medicine, and his PhD in bioengineering from UC Berkeley and UCSF, where he also completed his clinical training in pediatrics and pediatric hematology/oncology. Dr. Lam’s interdisciplinary laboratory serves as a unique “one-stop shop” in which they develop microsystems (microfabricated devices, microfluidics, etc.) to study hematologic processes in both health and disease and then translates those technologies to the patient bedside. Dr. Lam has also co-founded and serves as chief medical officer for two medical device startups and is the co-PI of the Atlantic Pediatric Device Consortium, an FDA-funded, Atlanta-based academic consortium charged to invent, develop, and commercialize medical devices to diagnose and treat pediatric illnesses. His laboratory’s research is funded by the NIH, NSF, FDA, the American Heart Association, and the Department of Defense.