Dr. Heath received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Baylor University in 1984 and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemical Physics in 1988 from Rice University. He was a Miller Research postdoctoral Fellow UC Berkeley, then joined the IBM Watson Labs as Research Staff Member in 1991. He was appointed Asst. Prof at UCLA in 1994, and promoted to Professor in 1997. Heath founded the California NanoSystems Institute in 2000 and served as its Director until moving to Caltech. Heath has worked in a number of areas, including nanomaterials, molecular electronics, and quantum phase transitions. More recently he has turned his efforts to addressing translational and fundamental research problems in oncology. Heath has been a recipient of several awards, including the Spiers Medal from the Royal Society, a Public Service Commendation from California Governor Gray Davis, the Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences, and the Irvin Weinstein Prize from the American Association of Cancer Researchers. He has founded or co-founded several companies including NanoSys, Momentum Biosciences, and Integrated Diagnostics. He serves as director of the National Cancer Institute funded NSB Cancer Center.