Frances Arnold Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry Biofuels, protein engineering, metabolic engineering, biological circuit design, directed evolution, biocatalysis
	Michael Elowitz Professor of Biology, Bioengineering and Applied Physics; Bren Scholar; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Biophysics; biocomputing; gene regulation networks and variation in living cells
	Chinlin Guo Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics Investigating cellular mechanisms of self-organization in biological systems, particularly the biomechanics that enhance and stabilize spatiotemporal control, where collective locomotion usually leads to integrated global behaviors
	Richard Murray Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering Application of feedback and control to mechanical, information, and biological systems
	Rob Phillips Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics and Biology Biophysics of macromolecules and their assemblies
	Niles Pierce Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics and Bioengineering; Executive Officer and Option Representative for Bioengineering Small conditional RNAs that interact and change conformation to execute molecular logic in vitro, in situ, and in vivo. Computational algorithms for analyzing and designing nucleic acid systems. Molecular instruments for readout and regulation of cell state. Conditional chemotherapies that selectively treat diseased cells, leaving normal cells untouched.
	Lulu Qian (arriving Summer 2013) Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Designing and constructing artificial molecular systems that exhibit programmable behaviors such as recognizing molecular events from their environment, processing information, making decisions, taking actions, learning, and evolving.
	Michael L. Roukes Robert M. Abbey Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering; Co-Director, Kavli Nanoscience Institute Nanobiotechnology, nanotechnology, nanoscale physics, nanoscale and molecular mechanics
	Erik Winfree Professor of Computer Science, Computation and Neural Systems, and Bioengineering Biomolecular computation, DNA-based computation, algorithmic self-assembly, in vitro biochemical circuits, noise- and fault-tolerance, DNA and RNA folding, evolution
	Changhuei Yang Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering Biophotonics, bioimaging

Affiliated Faculty

	Alexei Aravin Assistant Professor of Biology Non-coding RNAs: Study of natural functions of non-coding RNAs in the cell and programming of RNA pathways for new functions in vivo. Non-coding RNAs as determinants of epigenetic states. The link between RNA- and chromatin-based epigenetic mechanisms.
	Kaushik Bhattacharya Howell N. Tyson, Sr., Professor of Mechanics and Professor of Materials Science; Executive Officer for Mechanical and Civil Engineering Mechanics of muscles, multiphase lipid bilayer membranes, mechanics of materials, multi-scale modeling, active materials, shape-memory alloys, ferroelectrics, mechanics of hierarchical biological structures
	Joel Burdick Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering Robotics, neural prosthetics, and rehabilitation of spinal cord injuries
	Long Cai Assistant Professor of Chemistry Single cell systems biology, super-resolution barcoded FISH, single molecule microscopy
	John Doyle John G. Braun Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, Electrical Engineering, and Bioengineering Theoretical foundations and software infrastructure for complex technological and biological networks
	Azita Emami-Neyestanak Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Implantable and wearable devices for neural recoding and stimulations. Microelectronic and optoelectronic systems for drug delivery and diagnostics.
	Mory Gharib Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Bio-Inspired Engineering Biofluid dynamics, biomechanics, cardiac assist devices, advanced diagnostics
	Lea Goentoro Assistant Professor of Biology Design principles of biological systems, signal transduction in animal cells, network architecture of embryonic development, cellular and developmental basis of evolution
	Viviana Gradinaru Assistant Professor of Biology Reverse engineering brain circuits, optogenetics, protein engineering, technology development for neuroscience
	Julia Greer Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Mechanics Bioinspired design, biomechanics
	Ali Hajimiri Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering Chip-based magnetic, optical, and electrical integrated biosensors for low-cost point-of-care diagnostics and sequencing applications. Self-healing circuits and systems
	James Heath Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor and Professor of Chemistry
	Rustem Ismagilov John W. and Herbeta M. Miles Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Microfluidics, complex networks of reactions, cells and organisms, microbial communities, spatial structure, human health in resource-limited settings
	Henry A. Lester Bren Professor of Biology; Executive Officer for Neurobiology Neuroscience—study of nervous system at the molecular, cellular, and system levels
	Elliot M. Meyerowitz George W. Beadle Professor of Biology Computational modeling of plant development, computational analysis of microscope images
	Thanos Siapas Professor of Computation and Neural Systems Brain mechanisms of learning and memory, large-scale electrophysiology, computational neuroscience
	Paul Sternberg Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Molecular genetics of development, nematodes, cancer genes
	Yu-Chong Tai Professor of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Bioengineering Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), micromachines, sensors/actuators, microfluidics, biochips
	David Tirrell Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Polymer chemistry; materials chemistry; biomaterials

Research Faculty

Paul W.K. Rothemund Senior Research Associate in Bioengineering, Computer Science, and Computation and Neural Systems Molecular programming and algorithms, DNA computation, nucleic acid structure and thermodynamics, principles of self-assembly, nanotechnology, bionanolithography, using DNA nanostructures as instrumentation for biochemistry and biophysics

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