| Current
Lab Members | Lab Alumni | Postdoctoral
Openings | Information for Prospective
Students
 |
Linda
G. Griffith
Professor of Biological and Mechanical
Engineering
Director, MIT Biotechnology Process Engineering
Center
Chair, MIT Biological
Engineering Undergraduate
Programs Committee |
| Education |
B.S.(ChE) Georgia
Institute
of Technology, 1982
Ph.D.(ChE) University
of California at
Berkeley, 1988 |
| Professional Experience |
|
| Aug. 2004 - Jan. 2007 |
Area Head for Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering Department |
| Sept. 2003 - present |
Director, MIT Biotechnology Process Engineering Center |
| Sept. 2003 - present |
Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering, MIT |
| July 2002 – Sept. 2003 |
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, MIT |
| 1998 - present |
Chair, MIT Biological Engineering Undergraduate Programs Committee |
| 1998 - 2002 |
Associate Professor of Biological Engineering,
MIT |
| 1996 - 2002 |
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering,
MIT |
| 1991 - 1996 |
Assistant Professor of Chemical
Engineering, MIT |
| 1991 - 1993 |
Assistant Professor of Health Science & Technology,
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science & Technology |
| Academic Awards and Honors |
| |
• Society for Biomaterials Clemson Award for Basic Research (2009);
• Holt Lecture, MIT Biology (2008);
• Keynote Speaker, U. Michigan Microfluidics Symposium (2008);
• O’Hanian Lecture, U. Florida School of Engineering (2007);
• MIT School of Engineering Teaching Innovation Chair (2006);
• MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2006);
• Georgia Tech School of Engineering Distinguished Alumna (2006);
• Bayer Lecture, UC Berkeley (2002);
• Popular Science Brilliant 10 Award (2002) Fellow, Biomaterials Science and Engineering,
International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (2000);
• Class of 1960 Teaching Innovation Award, MIT (2000);
• Fellow, AIMBE (1998) Whitaker Lecture, ASAIO Annual Meeting (1998);
• Georgia Tech Council of Outstanding Young Engineers (1995) van Tassel Chair (1993);
• NSF Presidential Young Investigator (1991);
• Doherty Chair in Ocean Engineering (1991). |
| Select Government and Professional Service |
| |
• NIAMS Scientific Advisory Council (2009- continuing);
• Chair, U. Minn. BME Dept. Review Committee (2008);
• Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovator Award, Scientific Advisor (2007 – continuing);
• NIDCR Advisory Council (2003-2006);
• Co-Chair, Engineering Cell Biology, Joint ASCB-ECI Conference I and II (2005 and 2007);
• AIMBE, Board of Directors (2003-2005);
• NIH Director’s Focus Group (2002);
• Co-Chair, NIH/NSF Panel on Bioengineering, Medical Engineering, and BioInformatics Training
and Education (2001);
• Whitaker Foundation Review Panel (2000, 2001);
• NIGMS 5-Year Program Review (2001);
• BMES, Board of Directors (2001-2003); SAB, Harvard Dental School (Jan. 2000- continuing);
• Chair, NIH NHLBI Tissuegenesis/Organogenesis Working Group (1999);
• NIH Surgery and Bioengineering Study Section (ad hoc, 1995, 1999, permanent 2000-2003);
• WTEC Panel on Tissue Engineering (co-sponsored by NIH, NSF, NIST, DARPA, and the FDA);
• NIH Working Group on Review of Bioengineering and Technology and Instrumentation
Research (1998 – 1999);
• Co-Chair, Keystone Conference on Tissue Engineering (1998);
• Co-Chair, MRS Annual Spring Meeting (1997). |
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