MIT Department of Biology
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| Chairman | Alan Grossman (interim head) |
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| Location | , |
| Affiliations | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Website | biology |
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Faculty members
As of 2006[update] faculty members include:
Full Professors
- Angelika Amon[1]
- Tania A. Baker
- David Bartel
- Stephen P. Bell
- Jianzhu Chen
- Sallie W. Chisholm
- Martha Constantine-Paton
- Gerald Fink[2]
- Frank B. Gertler
- Alan D. Grossman
- Leonard P. Guarente
- Michael T. Hemann
- Nancy Hopkins
- H. Robert Horvitz, S.B. 1968
- David E. Housman
- Richard O. Hynes, Ph.D. 1971
- Barbara Imperiali, Ph.D. 1983
- Tyler Jacks
- Rudolf Jaenisch
- Chris A. Kaiser, Ph.D. 1987 (MIT Provost from July 2, 2012)[3]
- Jonathan King
- Monty Krieger
- Eric S. Lander
- Douglas Lauffenburger
- Jacqueline A. Lees
- Susan Lindquist[4]
- Harvey F. Lodish
- Paul Matsudaira
- Terry L. Orr-Weaver
- David C. Page
- Mary-Lou Pardue
- Hidde Ploegh
- William Quinn
- Uttam L. Rajbhandary
- Alexander Rich
- Leona Samson
- Robert T. Sauer
- Phillip A. Sharp
- Morgan Sheng
- Anthony J. Sinskey, Sc.D. 1966
- Hazel L. Sive
- Frank Solomon
- Peter K. Sorger
- Lisa A. Steiner
- JoAnne Stubbe
- Susumu Tonegawa
- Graham C. Walker
- Robert A. Weinberg, Ph.D. 1969
- Richard A. Young
Associate professors
- Christopher Burge
- J. Troy Littleton
- David M. Sabatini
- Matthew A. Wilson
- Michael B. Yaffe
Assistant professors
- Laurie A. Boyer
- Amy Keating
- Dennis H. Kim
- Carlos Lois
- Elly Nedivi
- Peter W. Reddien
- Thomas U. Schwartz
- Piyush Gupta
- Gene-Wei Li
Professors emeriti
- Gene Brown
- John Buchanan
- Maurice Fox
- Har Gobind Khorana
- Irving London
- Boris Magasanik
- Annamaria Torriani-Gorini
Alumni
Alumni of the department include:
Nobel laureates
The department can claim several winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine among its faculty and alumni. They are:
- Andrew Fire, 2006
- H. Robert Horvitz, 2002
- Leland H. Hartwell, 2001
- Phillip A. Sharp, 1993
- E. Donnall Thomas, 1990[5]
- Susumu Tonegawa, 1987
- David Baltimore, 1975
- Salvador Luria, 1969
- Har Gobind Khorana, 1968
Former faculty
Former faculty include:
- Herman Eisen[6]
- Vernon Ingram
- Salvador Luria
Other notable alumni
Other notable alumni include
- Leland H. Hartwell, Ph.D., 1964
- Richard O. Hynes, Ph.D., 1971
- Allan C. Spradling, Ph.D., 1975[7]
- Victor Ambros, Ph.D., 1979
- Cynthia Kenyon, Ph.D., 1979
- Andrew Fire, Ph.D., 1983
- Cornelia Bargmann, Ph.D., 1987
- Kevin Eggan, Ph.D., 2002
References
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- ↑ Chris A. Kaiser selected as MIT provost, Steve Bradt, MIT News Office
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- ↑ MIT Office of the Provost, Nobel Prizes
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