MIT Department of Biology

MIT Department of Biology

Chairman	Alan Grossman
Location	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Affiliations	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Website	biology.mit.edu

The MIT Department of Biology ("Course VII") is a world-renowned center for research in the life sciences. Many members of the faculty hold joint appointments with other departments at MIT and with outside institutions.

Faculty members

As of 2006 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

1. Amon, A. B. (2014). "Unanticipated success stories: An interview with Angelika Amon". Genetics 198 (2): 425–6. doi:10.1534/genetics.114.169094. PMC 4196593. PMID 25316775.
2. Orr-Weaver, T.; Jones, E. W. (2002). "The 2001 George W. Beadle Medal. Gerald R. Fink". Genetics 160 (2): 371–372. PMC 1461974. PMID 11894820.
3. Chris A. Kaiser selected as MIT provost, Steve Bradt, MIT News Office
4. Lindquist, S. L. (2011). "Qn As with Susan L. Lindquist. Interviewed by Prashant Nair". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (50): 19861. doi:10.1073/pnas.1118394108. PMC 3250120. PMID 22123945.
5. MIT Office of the Provost, Nobel Prizes
6. Steiner, Lisa; Ploegh, Hidde (2014). "Herman Eisen (1918–2014) Immunologist and educator who discovered fundamentals of antibody binding". Nature 516 (7529): 38. doi:10.1038/516038a.
7. Orr-Weaver, T. (2003). "The 2003 George W. Beadle Medal; Gerald M. Rubin and Allan C. Spradling". Genetics 164 (4): 1248–1249. PMC 1462668. PMID 15106662.