Training in chemical biology at MIT enables graduate students to address problems that transcend the traditional boundaries of chemistry and biology. Chemical biologists interrogate processes that occur in human, plant, microbial cells, as well as in viruses and animals.
Pfizer-Laubach Career Development Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Core Member, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, MIT
Extramural Member, The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT
Associate Member, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard
Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Assistant in Immunology, MGH
Instructor, Health Sciences and Technology, HMS
Research in the Shalek Lab is directed towards the creation and implementation of new technologies to understand how cells collectively perform systems-level functions in healthy and diseased states.
Chemistry Graduate Student Amanda Cowfer describes her research and answers 20 random questions as part of the Graduate Student Spotlight series.
System that generates coherent single particles of light could help pave the way for quantum information processors or communications.
The prestigious awards are supporting five innovative projects that challenge established norms and have the potential to be world-changing.
New results show how varying the recipe could bring these materials closer to commercialization.
Dance gives graduate student Lindsey Orgren an artistic outlet and fuels her passion for research, adding immeasurable value to her MIT experience.
Professor Elizabeth M. Nolan has been promoted to Professor, and Professor Alex K. Shlaek has been promoted to Associate Professor Without Tenure.
Research from the lab of assistant professor of chemistry Gabriela Schlau-Cohen advances the understanding of plants' photosynthetic machinery.
New platform enables longitudinal studies of circulating tumor cells in mouse models of cancer.