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MIT Department of Biology

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Chairman
  
Alan Grossman

Website
  
biology.mit.edu

Location
  
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Affiliations
  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The MIT Department of Biology ("Course VII") is a world-renowned center for research in the life sciences. Many members of the faculty hold joint appointments with other departments at MIT and with outside institutions.

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Faculty members

As of 2006 faculty members include:

Full Professors

  • Angelika Amon
  • Tania A. Baker
  • David Bartel
  • Gerald Fink
  • Leonard P. Guarente
  • H. Robert Horvitz, S.B. 1968
  • Tyler Jacks
  • Rudolf Jaenisch
  • Eric S. Lander
  • Susan Lindquist
  • Harvey F. Lodish
  • Alexander Rich
  • Phillip A. Sharp
  • JoAnne Stubbe
  • Susumu Tonegawa
  • Robert A. Weinberg, Ph.D. 1969
  • Richard A. Young

    • Associate professors

  • Christopher Burge

    • Professors emeriti

  • Har Gobind Khorana
  • Irving London

    • Alumni

    Alumni of the department include:

    Nobel laureates

    The department can claim several winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine among its faculty and alumni. They are:

  • Andrew Fire, 2006
  • H. Robert Horvitz, 2002
  • Leland H. Hartwell, 2001
  • Phillip A. Sharp, 1993
  • E. Donnall Thomas, 1990
  • Susumu Tonegawa, 1987
  • David Baltimore, 1975
  • Salvador Luria, 1969
  • Har Gobind Khorana, 1968

    • Former faculty

    Former faculty include:

  • Herman Eisen
  • Vernon Ingram
  • Salvador Luria

    • Other notable alumni

    Other notable alumni include

  • Leland H. Hartwell, Ph.D., 1964
  • Richard O. Hynes, Ph.D., 1971
  • Allan C. Spradling, Ph.D., 1975
  • Victor Ambros, Ph.D., 1979
  • Cynthia Kenyon, Ph.D., 1979
  • Andrew Fire, Ph.D., 1983
  • Cornelia Bargmann, Ph.D., 1987
  • Kevin Eggan, Ph.D., 2002

    • References

    MIT Department of Biology Wikipedia
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