Dr. Eric Werner has a Ph.D. in logic and is a research scientist specializing in distributed artificial intelligence, systems biology, biotechnology, cancer modeling and simulation. He recently developed new protocols to treat cancer via genome editing using CRISPR in combination with dna-CAD (Computer Aided Design) software. Dr. Werner last worked at the University of Oxford for 11 years in both the department of computer science and the department of physiology, anatomy and genetics. Organized and ran seminars on The Conceptual Foundations of Systems Biology and Cancer Networks at Balliol College, Oxford. He initiated the founding of the Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute. Previously he worked at many of the world’s top think tanks including INRIA in France, CNR in Rome, AAII the Stanford research labs in Australia, and the Distributed Systems Research Group at the University of Hamburg and led a project with staff and students that developed the first four legged “insect” robot in Germany. He was chairman of the department of computer science and Dana Faculty Fellow at Bowdoin College. He led robotic software development while a professor in computer science at the Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology.
