Steven Arthur Farber is an American scientist. He is a staff scientist at Carnegie Institution for Science.
Steven Arthur Farber completed a bachelor of science in engineering with a major in electrical and biomedical engineering from Rutgers University in 1986. He earned a master of science in technology and policy in 1991 and a doctor of philosophy in neurology in 1993 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] [2] His dissertation was titled Neuronal activity and membrane turnover in rat brain. His thesis supervisor was Richard Wurtman. Farber was a Carnegie Fellow in Marnie Halpern's laboratory.
Farber was an assistant professor at Thomas Jefferson University. In 2004, he became a staff researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science. He works in the department of embryology. In 2018, he was awarded a 5-year $3.3 million NIH grant for researching novel pharmaceuticals and diseases associated with altered levels of lipoproteins.[3]
Together with Jamie Shuda he developed an outreach program named BioEYES which allowed students to gain hands-on biology experience by studying live zebrafish in the classroom.