Timothy Lenoir is the Kimberly Jenkins Chair for New Technologies and Society at Duke University. He has published extensively on the history of biomedical science from the nineteenth century to the present, and his recent work has focused on the introduction of computers into biomedical research, particularly the development of computer graphics, medical visualization technology, the development of virtual reality and its applications in surgery and other fields.

Lenoir has also been engaged in constructing online digital libraries for a number of projects, a web documentary project on the history of bioinformatics and "How They Got Game," a history of interactive simulation and video games. With economists Nathan Rosenberg, Henry Rowen, and Brent Goldfarb he has just completed a collaborative study for Stanford University on Stanford's historical relationship to Silicon Valley entitled, Inventing the Entrepreneurial Region: Stanford and the Co-Evolution of Silicon Valley. He is currently engaged with colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara in developing the NSF-supported Center for Nanotechnology in Society, where he contributes to the effort to document the history, societal, and ethical implications of bionanotechnology.

Professor Lenoir delivered an address at the 2006 ASC conference.