Charles Fracchia

Awards

IBM Ph.D. Fellowship

This fellowship starts at the end of the first year of Ph.D. study and continues until graduation. The fellowship amounts to $30,000 per annum. It was offered following my summer internship at IBM Research in the group of Donna Dillenberger. During my time there I was supervised by Steve Heisig a senior engineer in the group.


Awesome Foundation Fellowship

This fellowship was awarded for my work in developing biological inks. The Awesome Foundation is a small crowd-sourced funding model born in Boston, MA and that quickly everywhere around the world. One of its members is Reed Sturtevant.

Publications

2011   Building a New Reporter System using Synthetic Biology for Bio-Electronic Communication
IBM Research Poster Presententation  (PDF 24.8mb)

2009   The Encapsulator: A Synthetic Biology Device for the Manufacture and Delivery to the Intestine of Peptide Drugs
International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition 2009 ( Website)

Presentations

2011   Why Biological Prototyping Sucks and How To Fix It
MIT T=0 Entrepreneurship Event  (Powerpoint 245kb; PDF 199kb)

2010   BioEngineered Inks
Awesome Foundation  (Powerpoint 26.9mb; PDF 32.7mb)