The Koch Institute brings together more than two dozen extraordinary biologists and engineers, working together to advance the cause of cancer research. Drawn from throughout MIT, this potent multidisciplinary mix of brilliant minds will attack the disease from a number of innovative new angles. Even within the engineering faculty there is remarkable diversity, as the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Materials Science and Engineering, Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering departments are all represented.
Working with the faculty will be almost 120 postdoctoral fellows and associates; 50 principal research scientists; approximately 70 technical assistants, associates, lab aides, and managers; over 175 graduate students and 70 undergraduates, and more than a dozen visiting scientists and students, for a total research force of almost 500 individuals. More than two dozen individual labs will be housed in and around the Institute.
| faculty member | title(s) | education |
|---|---|---|
| Angelika Amon | Professor of Biology,Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Ph.D. 1993, University of Vienna |
| Angela M. Belcher | Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering & Biological Engineering | Ph.D. 1997, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Sangeeta N. Bhatia | Professor of Health Sciences & Technology and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | Ph.D. 1997, MIT M.D. 1999, Harvard Medical School |
| Paul Chang | Assistant Professor of Biology | Ph.D. 2002, Stanford University |
| Jianzhu Chen | Cottrell Professor of Immunology, Professor of Biology | Ph.D. 1990, Stanford University |
| Michael J. Cima | Sumitomo Electric Industries Professor of Engineering | Ph.D. 1986, University of California, Berkeley |
| Herman N. Eisen | Professor Emeritus and Senior Lecturer | M.D. 1943, New York University |
| Frank B. Gertler | Professor of Biology | Ph.D. 1992, University of Wisconsin |
| Paula T. Hammond | Bayer Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering | Ph.D. 1993, MIT |
| Michael Hemann | Latham Family Career Development Assistant Professor of Biology | Ph.D. 2001, Johns Hopkins University |
| Nancy H. Hopkins | Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology | Ph.D. 1971, Harvard University |
| David E. Housman | Virginia & D.K. Ludwig Professor of Biology | Ph.D. 1971, Brandeis University |
| Richard O. Hynes | Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Ph.D. 1971, MIT |
| Darrell J. Irvine | Eugene Bell Associate Professor of Tissue Engineering | Ph.D. 2000, MIT |
| Tyler Jacks | Director, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, David H. Koch Professor of Biology, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Ph.D. 1988, University of California at San Francisco |
| Robert S. Langer | Institute Professor | Sc.D. 1974, MIT |
| Jacqueline A. Lees | Associate Director, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research,Ludwig Scholar, Professor of Biology | Ph.D. 1990, University of London |
| Scott Manalis | Associate Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering | Ph.D. 1998, Stanford University |
| Ram Sasisekharan | Underwood-Prescott Professor of Biological Engineering and Health Sciences & Technology | Ph.D. 1992, Harvard Medical School |
| Phillip A. Sharp | Institute Professor | Ph.D. 1969, University of Illinois |
| Frank Solomon | Professor of Biology | Ph.D. 1970, Brandeis University |
| Forest M. White | Associate Professor of Biological Engineering | Ph.D. 1997, Florida State University |
| K. Dane Wittrup | Associate Director, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering | Ph.D. 1988, California Institute of Technology |
| Michael B. Yaffe | Associate Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering | Ph.D. 1987, Case Western Reserve University M.D. 1989, Case Western Reserve University |
| extramural faculty | ||
| Stephen P. Bell | Biology | |
| Laurie Boyer | Biology | |
| Linda G. Griffith | Biological Engineering | |
| Leonard P. Guarente | Biology | |
| H. Robert Horvitz | Biology | |
| Rudolf Jaenisch | Whitehead | |
| Eric S. Lander | Broad | |
| Douglas Lauffenburger | Biological Engineering | |
| Susan L. Lindquist | Whitehead | |
| Stephen J. Lippard | Chemistry | |
| Harvey F. Lodish | Whitehead | |
| Paul T. Matsudaira | Whitehead | |
| Jill P. Mesirov | Broad | |
| Terry L. Orr-Weaver | Whitehead | |
| Hidde L. Ploegh | Whitehead | |
| David M. Sabatini | Whitehead | |
| Leona D. Samson | Biological Engineering | |
| Robert A. Weinberg | Whitehead | |
| Richard A. Young | Biology | |
"The Koch Institute will change the face of cancer research, not just at MIT but worldwide. By having expert cancer biologists working on trying to understand the disease at a molecular level interacting closely with engineers who are working on solving cancer-related problems, we will rapidly deliver improvements in cancer care."
Tyler Jacks, Ph.D.
Director, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
