James R. Heath was named as one of the most powerful innovators of our time by Forbes magazine. His research focus on molecular computers or moletronics; minute machines with its hardware synthesized chemically. Before his groundbreaking work in moletronics he ran the experimental apparatus that generated the first C60 molecules, a discovery that ultimately, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. As a key innovator and entrepreneur he has been founding or co-founding several start up companies and bioincubators, working with a broad rage of application of nanotechnology. He is a professor of chemistry at Caltech and professor of Molecular and medical Pharmacology at UCLA as well as the director of the national cancer institute NSB cancer centre.

“The technique is dead simple -- it's kind of remarkable that it works!”