FACULTY & RESEARCH INTERESTS LISTING

2002-2003

Angela Belcher (Biological Engineering/ Materials Science and Engineering):    belcher@mit.edu . Biomaterials, biomolecular materials and organic-inorganic interrfaces.

Bonnie Berger (Mathematics): bab@theory.lcs.mit.edu Computational molecular biology and bioinformatics; protein and virus structural predictions, data-base analysis Prof. Berger's home page.

Daniel Blankschtein (Chemical Engineering): dblank@mit.edu Separation and isolation of biological molecues, viruses, and cells; transdermal drug delivery; cholesterol gallstone formation. Prof. Blankschtein's home page.

Michael Cima (Materials Science and Engineering): mjcima@mit.edu Ceramic materials, and materials processing, for drug delivery and implant devices. Prof. Cima's home page.

Clark Colton (Chemical Engineering): ckcolton@mit.edu Cell encapsulation for bioartificial organs; membranes in molecular and cellular therapies. Prof. Colton's home page.

Charles Cooney (Chemical Engineering): ccooney@mit.edu Cytokine transport in and interactions with extracellular matrix. Prof. Cooney's home page.

William Deen (Biological Engineering/Chemical Engineering):wmdeen@mit.edu Molecular transport in organs and tissues; biological effects of nitric oxide. Prof. Deen's home page.

C. Forbes Dewey (Biological Engineering/Mechanical Engineering):cfdewey@mit.edu Cardiovascular fluid dynamics; cell responses to mechanical forces; medical imaging; image analysis Prof. Dewey's home page.

Drew Endy  (Biological Engineering/Biology):  endy@mit.edu   Biological systems modeling.  Dr. Endy's home page.

Christopher Evans (Director, Center for Molecular Orthopaedics, Brigham & Women's Hospital): Gene delivery and gene therapy; connective tissue biology.

Daniel Ehrlich (Whitehead Institute): Microdevices for identification of DNA, RNA, and proteins ehrlich@wi.mit.edu

Lorna Gibson (Materials Science and Engineering): ljgibson@MIT.EDU Mechanics of cellular materials. Prof. Gibson's home page.

Linda Griffith (Biological Engineering/Chemical Engineering):griff@mit.edu Biomaterials; tissue regeneration devices. Prof. Griffith's home page.

Alan Grodzinsky (Biological Engineering/Electrical Engineering & Computer Science):alg@mit.edu Transport and mechanics of extracellular matrix; physical regulation of cell metabolism; minimally-invasive diagnostics.

Paula Hammond (Chemical Engineering):  hammond@mit.edu   Macromolecular design and synthesis, directed assembly using surface templates, block copolymers, asymmetric morphologies, liquid crystalline polymeric materials, nanoscale assembly and fabrication.

Neville Hogan (Biological Engineering/Mechanical Engineering; Brain & Cognitive Sciences):neville@mit.edu Biomechanics and neural control of movement; robotics, mechatronics, control; neurologic diagnosis and rehabilitation. Prof. Hogan's home page.

Ian Hunter (Biological Engineering/Mechanical Engineering):ihunter@mit.edu Electro/optical/mechanical instrumentation; robotic microsurgery; microimaging systems; minimally-invasive diagnostics. Prof. Hunter's home page.

Donald Ingber (Harvard Medical School): ingber@a1.tch.harvard.edu Signal transduction; cell and tissue mechanics. Prof. Ingber's home page.

Darrell Irvine (Biiological Engineering/Materials Science and Engineering):  djirvine@mt.edu    Cell and tissue engineering, biomaterials.

Rakesh Jain (Harvard Medical School): jain@sherman.mgh.harvard.edu Molecular and cell transport in tissue and tumors.

Roger Kamm (Biological Engineering/Mechanical Engineering):rdkamm@mit.edu Pulmonary flows and structure; mechanics of biomaterials; cell responses to mechanical forces. Prof. Kamm's home page.

Hermano Igo Krebs (Mechanical Engineering):  hikrebs@mit.edu   Neurological rehabilitation technology.

Monty Krieger (Biology): krieger@mit.edu Cell surface receptor structure and function; lipoprotein metabolism; HDL receptor; atherosclerosis; innate immunity.Prof. Krieger's home page.

Robert Langer (Biological Engineering/Chemical Engineering):rlanger@mit.eduBiomaterials for drug delivery, tissue engineering, and gene therapy. Prof. Langer's home page.

Douglas Lauffenburger (Director, Biological Engineering/Chemical Engineering): lauffen@mit.edu Receptor-mediated cell functions; engineering aspects of cytokine, gene, and cell therapies. Prof. Lauffenburger's home page.

Richard T. Lee (Harvard Medical School): rtlee@bics.bwh.harvard.edu Mechanical regulation of gene expression. Prof. Lee's home page.

Scott Manalis (Biological Engineering/Media Arts and Sciences): scottm@media.mit.edu   Molecular, cell and tissue biomechanics, biological imaging and functional measurement, new tools for genomics, functional genomics, proteomics and glycomics.  Prof. Manalis' home page.

Paul Matsudaira (Biological Engineering/Biology; Whitehead Institute):matsu@wi.mit.edu Protein and DNA structure/function relationships; microautomated sequencing and characterization technologies. Prof. Matsudaira's home page.

Anne Mayes (Materials Science and Engineering): amayes@monosparc.mit.edu Synthesis and characterization of polymeric biomaterials. Prof. Mayes' home page.

Matthew Nugent (Boston University Medical School): nugent@med-biochm.bu.edu Extracellular matrix and growth factor regulation of cell function. Prof. Nugent's home page.

Christine Ortiz (Biological Engineering/Materials Science & Engineering) cortiz@mit.edu Polymer mechanics, synthetic and biological hierarchical macromolecular systems, high resolution force spectroscopy.  Professor Ortiz' home page.

Alex Rich (Biology): rich@mit.edu Structural biology and biophysics of protein/nucleic acid interactions. Prof. Rich's home page.

Ram Sasisekharan (Biological Engineering):ramnat@mit.edu Molecular design for control of growth factor, matrix, and receptor interactions. Prof. Sasisekharan's home page.

Martin Schmidt (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science):schmidt@mtl.mit.edu Microelectromechanical systems technology.

Frederick Schoen (Harvard Medical School): fjschoen@bics.bwh.harvard.edu Pathology and mechanisms of complications of cardiovascular medical devices; tissue responses to biomaterials.

Peter Seeburger (Chemistry): seeberg@mit.edu   New Methods for the Solution and Solid-Phase Synthesis of Oligosaccharides - Development of an Automated Oligosaccharide Synthesizer;  Fully Synthetic Carbohydrate Tropical Disease Vaccines; Synthesis and Biochemical Studies of Glycosaminoglycans;  Understanding Carbohydrate-Nucleic Acid Interactions: Design of Novel Aminoglycoside Antibiotics;  Synthesis of Various Heterocyclic Scaffolds via Novel Cycloaddition Reactions. Prof. Seeberger's home page.

Arun Shanbhag (Massachusetts General Hospital , HMS ): shanbhag@helix.mgh.harvard.edu  Biomaterials, orthopadeic surgery; wear debris in joint replacements, cell-biomaterial interactions, cytokines and gene expression profiling.

Peter So (Mechanical Engineering): ptso@mit.edu Multi-photon microscopy instrumentation; single protein dynamics; functional imaging of cellular transport; non-invasive tissue diagnostic methods. Prof. So's home page.

Myron Spector (Harvard Medical School): spector@ortho.bwh.harvard.edu Orthopedic; musculoskeletal tissue engineering. Prof. Spector's home page.

Steven Tannenbaum: ( Biological Engineering/Chemistry):srt@mit.edu Carcinogenic and toxic effects of environmental and pharmacological compounds. Prof. Tannenbaum's home page.

Joseph Vacanti (Harvard Medical School): vacanti@a1.tch.harvard.edu Organ transplantation and tissue regeneration.

K. Dane Wittrup (Biological Engineering/Chemical Engineering): wittrup@mit.edu  Molecular bioengineering, protein
engineering, therapeutic protein biotechnology.

Ioannis Yannas (Biological Engineering/Mechanical Engineering; Materials Science & Engineering): yannas@mit.edu Synthesis of organ regeneration templates; regeneration assays; cytokine-template and cell-template interactions during organ regeneration. Prof. Yannas' home page.

Shuguang Zhang (Center for Biomedical Engineering): shuguang@mit.edu Self-assembling peptide systems, structures of peptides and proteins, peptide molecular switch, prebiotic molecular evolution, protein engineering, pepchip, cell chip. Dr. Zhang's home page.

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