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Professors
 
 
Angela Belcher Biomaterials, biomolecular materials and organic-inorganic interrfaces
Arup Chakraborty Computational Modeling of Biological and Physiological Processes
Peter Dedon Chemical, biological, and physical mechanisms of endogenous DNA damage; free radical chemistry and biology
Edward F. DeLong Environmental genomics, microbial diversity, photobiology, integrating microbial systems biology with systems ecology
C. Forbes Dewey, Jr. Cell, tissue, and fluid biomechanics; biological imaging 
John M. Essigmann Molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis; mechanism based drug design
James G. Fox Animal models for disease 
Linda G. Griffith Tissue engineering 
Alan J. Grodzinsky Cell mechanobiology, molecular electromechanics, and tissue engineering
Roger D. Kamm Cell, tissue, and fluid biomechanics
Alexander M. Klibanov Enzyme biotechnology; therapeutic proteins
Robert Langer Biomaterials; tissue engineering 
Douglas A. Lauffenburger
Director
Cell, tissue and biomolecular engineering; computational modeling of biological and physiological systems 
Harvey F. Lodish Cytokine- and cell-based therapeutic biotechnology 
Paul Matsudaira Microfabrication biotechnology; molecular- 
and cell-level biological imaging
Leona D. Samson Cellular responses to damaging agents; the repair of alkylation damage and its influence on alkylation induced cell death, apoptosis, mutation, chromosome damage and cancer
Ram Sasisekharan Glycotechnology and therapeutics
David B. Schauer Bacterial pathogenesis; infection and cancer risk
Peter So Biomedical optics; micromanipulation and fabrication; molecular, cell and tissue biomechanics; non-invasive optical biopsy
Peter Sorger Systems biology of tumor progression and treatment. Quantitative analysis of chromosome segregation and cell division
Subra Suresh Single cell and single molecule mechanical response, experiments and computations
Steven R. Tannenbaum Nitric Oxide, Metabolism and toxicology of drug development, mass spectrometry and proteomics
William G. Thilly Origins of genetic change in humans
Bruce Tidor Computational biology and bioengineering;molecular biophysics; rational drug design; biochemical networks and signal transduction; Systems biology
K. Dane Wittrup Molecular bioengineering, protein engineering, therapeutic protein biotechnology
Gerald N. Wogan Effects of environmental toxins on human physiology 
Ioannis Yannas Tissue engineering

Associate Professors
 
 
Chris Burge Mechanisms of gene regulation
Bevin P. Engelward DNA damage induced loss of genomic integrity 
Jongyoon Han Micro/nanofabrication
Darrell J. Irvine Immune system bioengineering, cell and tissue engineering, biomaterials
Scott Manalis Molecular, cell and tissue biomechanics, biological imaging and functional measurement, new tools for genomics, functional genomics, proteomics and glycomics
Forest White Proteomics, protein phosphorylation analysis, mass
spectrometry
Michael Yaffe Regulation of protein-protein interactions; structure and function of modular signaling domains; design of bioinformatics tools for proteomic analysis

Assistant Professors
 
Eric Alm Computational and experimental approaches to understanding the evolution of gene regulatory networks in environmental microorganisms.
Ed Boyden Neurotechnology, neural circuit analysis and engineering, novel neurological disase treatments, optical and molecular tools for neuroscience
Drew Endy Biological Systems Analysis, Design and Synthesis
Ernest Fraenkel Computational Biology; Systems Biology; Transcriptional Regulation
Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli Bioengineering, manufacturing, manipulation of biologiical molecules, chemistry, nanotechnology, 
materials science
Alan P. Jasanoff Molecular imaging in neurobiology, functional MRI, systems neuroscience
Matthew Lang Biological imaging and functional measurement; macromolecular biochemistry & biophysics; molecular, cell and tissue biomechanics
Jacquin Niles

Development of new molecular tools aimed at facilitating investigation of human pathogens


Research/Teaching Staff
 
Noubar Afeyan Biotechnology and systems biology
Laura Green Environmental health
Natalie Kuldell Curriculum Development
Jan Lammerding Biomechanics - lab website:
http://vascular.bwh.harvard.edu/Lammerding/
Randy Rettberg Synthetic biology
Agi Stachowiak Cell engineering, biomaterials
Steve Wasserman Bioinstrumentation
Pete Wishnok Bioanalytical techniques and instrumentation

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