MIT Department of Biology
Chairman | Alan Grossman |
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Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
Affiliations | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Website |
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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
- Gerald Fink[2]
- Leonard P. Guarente
- H. Robert Horvitz, S.B. 1968
- Tyler Jacks
- Rudolf Jaenisch
- Eric S. Lander
- Susan Lindquist[3]
- Harvey F. Lodish
- Alexander Rich
- Phillip A. Sharp
- JoAnne Stubbe
- Susumu Tonegawa
- Robert A. Weinberg, Ph.D. 1969
- Richard A. Young
Associate professors
Professors emeriti
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[4]
- Susumu Tonegawa, 1987
- David Baltimore, 1975
- Salvador Luria, 1969
- Har Gobind Khorana, 1968
Former faculty
Former faculty include:
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[6]
- 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ MIT Office of the Provost, Nobel Prizes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
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