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 Engineering Faculty

  • Eric Alm

    Assistant Professor

  • Mark Bathe

    Samuel A. Goldblith Assistant Professor of Applied Biology

  • Angela M. Belcher

    Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Biological Engineering

  • Ed Boyden

    Benesse Career Development Professor of the Media Lab, and the Department of Biological Engineering

  • Christopher B. Burge

    Whitehead Career Development Associate Professor

  • Arup Chakraborty

    Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering
    Professor of Chemistry
    Professor of Biological Engineering

  • Peter Dedon

    Professor of Toxicology and Biological Engineering
    Associate Head, Department of Biological Engineering
    Deputy Director, MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences 

  • Edward F. DeLong

    Professor, Department of Biological Engineering & Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • C. Forbes Dewey Jr.

    Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering

  • Bevin P. Engelward

    Associate Professor of Biological Engineering

  • John M. Essigmann

    Professor of Chemistry, Toxicology, and Biological Engineering

  • James G. Fox

    Director and Professor, Division of Comparative Medicine and Biological Engineering

  • Ernest Fraenkel

    Associate Professor

  • Linda G. Griffith

    School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation

    Director, Biotechnology Process Engineering Center

  • Alan J. Grodzinsky

    Director, Center for Biomedical Engineering

    Professor of Biological, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering

  • Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli

    Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering

  • Jongyoon Han

    Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Biological Engineering

  • Darrell J. Irvine

    Associate Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Biological Engineering

  • Alan Jasanoff

    Associate Professor of Biological Engineering also Depts. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Nuclear Science & Engineering, and McGovern Institute for Brain Research

  • Roger D. Kamm

    Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Biological Engineering

  • Alexander M. Klibanov

    Novartis Professor of Chemistry and Biological Engineering

  • Matthew J. Lang

    Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering

  • Robert S. Langer

    Institute Professor and Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

  • Douglas A. Lauffenburger

    Ford Professor of Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Biology
    Head, Department of Biological Engineering

  • Harvey F. Lodish

    Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering

    Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

  • Scott Manalis

    Professor of Biological Engineering

  • Jacquin C. Niles

    Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Engineering

  • Katharina Ribbeck

    Assistant Professor

  • Leona D. Samson

    Director, Center for Environmental Health Sciences

    Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering

  • Ram Sasisekharan

    Director & E.H. Taplin Professor of Health Sciences & Technology

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