Viviana Gradinaru

Viviana Grădinaru is a Romanian-American neuroscientist who is a professor of neuroscience and biological engineering at the California Institute of Technology. She develops neurotechnologies, including optogenetics CLARITY tissue clearing, and gene delivery vectors. She has been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award. In 2019 she was a finalist for the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. In 2020 she was awarded a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science by the Vilcek Foundation.