Biological Engineering
MIT’s biological engineering department is on the forefront of the emerging biology-based engineering discipline. BE researchers fuse engineering principles with the knowledge and tools of molecular life sciences in order to solve contemporary problems through the measurement, modeling, and rational manipulation of biological systems. We prepare engineers and scientists to create biology-based technologies to benefit a range of diverse areas including human and environmental health, agriculture, manufacturing, and defense.
Our faculty explores complicated problems arising from societal needs and concerns. BE researchers direct leading-edge research programs designed to address those problems, including:
- Biological and physiological transport phenomena
- Biological imaging and functional measurement
- Biomaterials
- Biomolecular engineering and cell and tissue engineering
- Computational biology and bioinformatics
- Discovery, design, and delivery of molecular therapeutics
- Genetic toxicology
- Macromolecular biochemistry and biophysics
- Metabolism of drugs and toxins
- Microbial pathogenesis
- Carcinogenesis
- Biomechanics
- Molecular epidemiology
- Molecular pharmacology
- Genomics, proteomics, and glycomics
