Dr. de la Zerda is also an associate professor in the Departments of Structural Biology and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University School of Medicine, with research interests spanning a broad field of molecular imaging. His lab is developing new optical imaging tools with applications to cancer and ophthalmic diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration.

He received his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the Technion and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Dr. de la Zerda conducted postdoctoral studies at University of California, Berkeley, before joining the Stanford faculty in 2012.