David Edwards

Author: DavidEdwards

Gender: Man

Age: 48

City: Paris

Country: France

Language: En

David Edwards is a scientist and writer and founder of Le Laboratoire. He also retains a faculty position at Harvard University, where he teaches idea development in the arts and sciences. The inventor of new ways for treating diseases by aerosols, David is the scientifi c founder of the for-profi t company Pulmatrix and the international nonprofi t Medicine in Need (MEND). At Le Laboratoire he invented and launched commercially Le Whif, the fi rst product in the new fi eld of aerosol cuisine, which he is exploring with French chef Thierry Marx. David’s writing includes the founding books of Le Laboratoire, including Niche (Ecole de Beaux Arts 2007), Whiff (Ecole de Beaux Arts 2008) and Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation (Harvard Press 2008). In 2008, David Edwards was made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture; in the same year he was elected to the French National Academy of Engineering. He is a member of the American National Academy of Engineering since 2001.