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Dr. David Edwards

Founder & Chief Science Officer at Sensory Cloud
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David Edwards is an inventor, writer and former professor at Harvard University. He has started multiple companies and oversees the World Frontiers Forum and the restaurant Senses in Cambridge Massachusetts. He explores new ways of delivering human health and wellness in drug, vaccine, food and scent forms, with special attention to environmental sustainability, as in his edible packaging. His inventions have led to many companies and nonprofits, including Advanced Inhalation Research (purchased by Alkermes in 1999), Pulmatrix (PULM: NASDAQ), Medicine in Need, AeroDesigns, Wikifood (now Incredible Foods), Quantum Designs, Labstore, Cafe ArtScience, Le Laboratoire, oNotes, the World Frontiers Forum, and Sensory Cloud. He writes fiction and non fiction in English and French. His book Creating Things that Matter (Holt 2018) won a 2018 Nautilus Award.

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