Michael Deem

Michael Deem is founder and CEO of Certus LLC, a biopharmaceutical consulting company, following a distinguished academic career as a professor of biosciences and bioengineering. Deem earned his undergraduate degree from Caltech before completing his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where his fellowship began in 1991. He built an academic career at Rice University, where he was the John W. Cox Professor and held dual appointments in bioengineering and physics, conducting research on theoretical and computational approaches to biological evolution, including the statistical mechanics of the immune system and influenza vaccine efficacy.