Craig Forest is the founder and director of the Precision Biosystems Laboratory at Georgia Tech, an academic research laboratory focused on the development of miniaturized, high-throughput robotic instrumentation to advance biomolecular science. Our research program is in the emerging bio-nano field—at the intersection of bioMEMS, machine design, neuroengineering, genetics, optics, and manufacturing. The instruments developed in the laboratory have led to the genesis of a new field of intracellular, in vivo robotics for neuroscience, a virus detector that is a 10-100x throughput improvement over pre-existing technologies, a device for personalizing drug dosage to prevent heart attacks, and a high throughput genome engineering technique. These instruments, and the discoveries they enable, are unlocking new frontiers in neuroscience and genetic science.
 

Craig is cofounder/organizer of one of the largest undergraduate invention competitions in the US—The InVenture Prize, and founder/organizer of one of the largest student-run prototyping facilities in the US—The Invention Studio. Craig is Associate Director of CREATE-X, an entrepreneurship program at Georgia Tech that has led to the founding of 700 companies worth $3B+ over the past 10 years. Craig was named Engineer of the Year in Education for the state of Georgia (2013). In 2007, he was a finalist on the ABC reality TV show "American Inventor.”