Ha, Taekjip

Taekjip Ha (born February 20, 1968) is a South Korean-born American biophysicist who is currently a Senior investigator and director of Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School. He was previously Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He was previously the Gutgsell Professor of Physics, at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was the principal investigator of Single Molecule Nanometry group. He is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.