Niles A. Pierce is an American mathematician, bioengineer, and professor at the

California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes ...

. He is a leading researcher in the fields of molecular programming and dynamic nucleic acid nanotechnology. His research is focused on kinetically controlled DNA and RNA self-assembly. Pierce is working on applications in bioimaging. Pierce graduated as the Valedictorian of the

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

class of 1993 with a BSE in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. He then attended

Oxford University The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ...

as a

Rhodes Scholar The Rhodes Scholarship is an international Postgraduate education, postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom. The scholarship is open to people from all backgrounds around the world. Esta ...

, an achievement repeated nine years later by his sister

Lillian Pierce Lillian Beatrix Pierce is a mathematician whose research connects number theory with harmonic analysis. She is a professor of mathematics at Duke University. Early life and education Pierce was homeschooling, home-schooled in Fallbrook, Cali ...

. He completed a DPhil in Applied Mathematics in 1997. He joined the faculty of the

in 2000.

Works

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Resources

NUPACK
is a growing software suite for the analysis and design of nucleic acid structures, devices, and systems.
Molecular Technologies
develops and supports programmable molecular technologies for reading out and regulating the state of endogenous biological circuitry.

Startup Company

Molecular Instruments, Inc.
designs and synthesizes molecular kits for multiplexed quantitative bioimaging in academic research, drug development, and clinical diagnostics.

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