| Established | 1871 |
|---|---|
| Department Head | Amy Keating |
| Location | , |
| Affiliations | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Website | biology |
The MIT Department of Biology ("Course VII") is a center for research and teaching in the life sciences. Many members of the faculty hold joint appointments with other departments at MIT and with outside institutions.
Faculty members[edit]
As of 2020[update] faculty members include:
Full Professors[edit]
- Tania A. Baker
- David Bartel
- Stephen P. Bell
- Christopher Burge
- Iain Cheeseman
- Jianzhu Chen
- Cathy Drennan
- Gerald Fink[1]
- Frank Gertler
- Alan Grossman
- Leonard P. Guarente
- H. Robert Horvitz, S.B. 1968
- David Housman
- Richard Hynes
- Barbara Imperiali
- Tyler Jacks
- Rudolf Jaenisch
- Chris Kaiser
- Amy Keating
- Monty Krieger
- Eric S. Lander
- Michael T. Laub
- Jacqueline Lees
- Troy Littleton
- Harvey F. Lodish
- David C. Page
- Uttam RajBhandary
- Peter Reddien
- Aviv Regev
- David M. Sabatini
- Robert T. Sauer
- Thomas Schwartz
- Phillip A. Sharp
- Anthony Sinskey
- Hazel Sive
- Frank Solomon
- Lisa Steiner
- Susumu Tonegawa
- Matthew Vander Heiden
- Graham Walker
- Robert A. Weinberg, Ph.D. 1969
- Michael B. Yaffe
- Richard A. Young
Associate professors[edit]
Assistant professors[edit]
- Eliezer Calo
- Joseph H. Davis
- Ankur Jain
- Rebecca Lamason
- Gene-Wei Li
- Pulin Li
- Sebastian Lourido
- Stefani Spranger
- Jing-Ke Weng
- Seychelle Vos
- Omer Yilmaz
Professors with primary appointments in other departments[edit]
Professors emeriti[edit]
- Martha Constantine-Paton
- Malcolm Gefter
- Nancy Hopkins
- Jonathan King
- Terry Orr-Weaver
- Mary-Lou Pardue
- Sheldon Penman
- Phillips Robbins
- Robert Rosenberg
- Leona D. Samson
- Paul Schimmel
- Edward Scolnick
- Ethan Signer
- JoAnne Stubbe
- William (Chip) Quinn
Department Heads[edit]
- 1889-1921 William T. Sedgwick
- 1921-1942 Samuel C. Prescott
- 1942-1955 Francis O. Schmitt
- 1957-1966 Irwin W. Sizer
- 1966-1977 Boris Magasanik
- 1977-1985 Gene M. Brown
- 1985-1989 Maurice Fox
- 1989-1991 Richard O. Hynes
- 1991-1999 Phillip Sharp
- 1999-2004 Robert T. Sauer
- 2004-2012 Chris Kaiser
- 2012-2014 Tania Baker
- 2014-2023 Alan Grossman
- 2023 Amy Keating
Alumni[edit]
Alumni of the department include:
Nobel laureates[edit]
The department can claim several winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine among its faculty and alumni. They are:
- Michael Rosbash, 2017
- Andrew Fire, 2006
- H. Robert Horvitz, 2002
- Leland H. Hartwell, 2001
- Phillip A. Sharp, 1993
- E. Donnall Thomas, 1990[2]
- Susumu Tonegawa, 1987
- David Baltimore, 1975
- Salvador Luria, 1969
- Har Gobind Khorana, 1968
Former faculty[edit]
Former faculty include:
- Angelika Amon[3]
- Gene Brown
- Arnold Demain
- Herman Eisen[4]
- Vernon Ingram
- Susan Lindquist[5]
- Maurice Fox
- Har Gobind Khorana
- Irving London
- Salvador Luria
- Alexander Rich
Other notable alumni[edit]
Other notable alumni include
- Victor Ambros, Ph.D., 1979
- Cornelia Bargmann, Ph.D., 1987
- Kevin Eggan, Ph.D., 2002
- Stephen J. Elledge, Ph.D., 1983
- Andrew Fire, Ph.D., 1983
- Leland H. Hartwell, Ph.D., 1964
- Richard O. Hynes, Ph.D., 1971
- Cynthia Kenyon, Ph.D., 1979
- Michael Rosbash, Ph.D., 1970
- Allan C. Spradling, Ph.D., 1975[6]
References[edit]
- ^ Orr-Weaver, T.; Jones, E. W. (2002). "The 2001 George W. Beadle Medal. Gerald R. Fink". Genetics. 160 (2): 371–372. doi:10.1093/genetics/160.2.371. PMC 1461974. PMID 11894820.
- ^ MIT Office of the Provost, Nobel Prizes
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. PMID 25471875.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Orr-Weaver, T. (2003). "The 2003 George W. Beadle Medal; Gerald M. Rubin and Allan C. Spradling". Genetics. 164 (4): 1248–1249. doi:10.1093/genetics/164.4.1248. PMC 1462668. PMID 15106662.