Broad Institute. Chris received his Ph.D. in 2004 in physical chemistry at Harvard University, where he developed a number of unconventional methods to fabricate micro- and nanoscale structures using both soft lithography and self-assembly. He then extended his research into immunology and pathology, first as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School from 2004-2005, and then as an Instructor at the Immune Disease Institute (formerly CBRI) from 2005-2007. Drawing on his expertise in surface chemistry and microtechnologies, he studied both the dynamics of phagosomal maturation in dendritic cells and the activation of naïve B cells by live cell imaging and microfluidics; he also developed a process for generating monoclonal antibodies by high-throughput, single-cell screening.