Pierce named 2014 Guggenheim Fellow

FALLBROOK – Niles A. Pierce, a native of Fallbrook and professor of applied and computational mathematics and bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), is one of only two engineers nationwide to be named a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Pierce is working to engineer programmable molecular instruments capable of reading out and regulating the state of biological circuitry within intact biological organisms.

In this pursuit, his laboratory has contributed to the founding of the new discipline of molecular programming, deve...