The MIT Department of Biology ("Course VII") is a center for research and teaching in the
life sciences
This list of life sciences comprises the branches of science that involve the scientific study of life – such as microorganisms, plants, and animals including human beings. This science is one of the two major branches of natural science, ...
. Many members of the faculty hold joint appointments with other departments at MIT and with outside institutions.
Faculty members
faculty members include:
Full Professors
*
Tania A. Baker
*
David Bartel
*
Stephen P. Bell
*
Christopher Burge
*
Iain CheesemanJianzhu Chen*
Cathy Drennan
*
Gerald Fink
* Frank Gertler
*
Alan Grossman
*
Leonard P. Guarente
*
H. Robert Horvitz, S.B. 1968
David HousmanRichard Hynes
* Barbara Imperiali
* Tyler Jacks
* Rudolf Jaenisch
Chris KaiserAmy KeatingMonty Krieger
* Eric S. Lander
Michael T. LaubJacqueline Lees
* Troy Littleton
* Harvey F. Lodish
* David C. Page
Uttam RajBhandaryPeter Reddien
* Aviv Regev
Aviv Regev (Hebrew language, Hebrew: אביב רגב; born 11 July 1971) is a computational biologist and systems biologist and Executive Vice President and Head of Genentech Research and Early Development in Genentech/Roche. She is a core membe ...
* David M. Sabatini
* Robert T. Sauer
Thomas Schwartz
* Phillip A. Sharp
Anthony Sinskey
* Hazel Sive
Frank Solomon
* Lisa Steiner
* Susumu Tonegawa
Matthew Vander HeidenGraham Walker
* Robert A. Weinberg, Ph.D. 1969
* Michael B. Yaffe
* Richard A. Young
Associate professors
* Laurie Boyer
Mary GehringMichael HemannAdam C. Martin
Assistant professors
Eliezer CaloLindsay CaseJoseph H. DavisAnkur JainRebecca LamasonGene-Wei LiPulin LiSebastian LouridoStefani SprangerSeychelle VosOmer Yilmaz
Professors with primary appointments in other departments
* Sallie (Penny) Chisholm
Douglas Lauffenburger
* Elly Nedivi
Matthew Wilson
Professors emeriti
* Martha Constantine-Paton
* Malcolm Gefter
* Nancy Hopkins
Jonathan King
* Terry Orr-Weaver
* Mary-Lou Pardue
* Sheldon Penman
* Phillips Robbins
* Robert Rosenberg
* Leona D. Samson
* Paul Schimmel
* Edward Scolnick
* Ethan Signer
* JoAnne Stubbe
William (Chip) Quinn
Department Heads
* 1889-1921 William T. Sedgwick
* 1921-1942 Samuel C. Prescott
* 1942-1955 Francis O. Schmitt
* 1957-1966 Irwin W. Sizer
* 1966-1977 Boris Magasanik
* 1977-1985 Gene M. Brown
* 1985-1989 Maurice Fox
* 1989-1991 Richard O. Hynes
* 1991-1999 Phillip Sharp
* 1999-2004 Robert T. Sauer
* 2004-201
Chris Kaiser
* 2012-2014 Tania Baker
* 2014-2023 Alan Grossman
* 2023 Amy Keating
Alumni
Alumni of the department include:
Nobel laureates
The department can claim several winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine () is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute, Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single ...
among its faculty and alumni. They are:
* Michael Rosbash
Michael Morris Rosbash (born March 7, 1944) is an American geneticist and chronobiologist. Rosbash is a professor and researcher at Brandeis University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Rosbash's research group cloned th ...
, 2017
* Andrew Fire, 2006
* H. Robert Horvitz, 2002
* Leland H. Hartwell, 2001
* Phillip A. Sharp, 1993
* E. Donnall Thomas, 1990
* Susumu Tonegawa, 1987
* David Baltimore
David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) is an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He is a professor of biology at the California Institute of Tech ...
, 1975
* Salvador Luria
Salvador Edward Luria (; ; born Salvatore Luria; August 13, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an Italian microbiologist, later a Naturalized citizen of the United States#Naturalization, naturalized U.S. citizen. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology ...
, 1969
* Har Gobind Khorana, 1968
Former faculty
Former faculty include:
* Angelika Amon
Angelika Amon (January 10, 1967 – October 29, 2020) was an Austrian American molecular and cell biologist, and the Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor in Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massa ...
* Gene Brown
* Arnold Demain
* Herman Eisen
* Vernon Ingram
* Susan Lindquist
* Maurice Fox
* Har Gobind Khorana
* Irving London
* Salvador Luria
Salvador Edward Luria (; ; born Salvatore Luria; August 13, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an Italian microbiologist, later a Naturalized citizen of the United States#Naturalization, naturalized U.S. citizen. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology ...
* Alexander Rich
Alexander Rich (15 November 1924 – 27 April 2015) was an American biologist and biophysicist. He was the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT (since 1958) and Harvard Medical School. Rich earned an A.B. ('' magna cum ...
Other notable alumni
Other notable alumni include
* Victor Ambros
Victor R. Ambros (born December 1, 1953) is an American developmental biologist who discovered the first known microRNA (miRNA). He is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He completed both his undergraduate and doct ...
, Ph.D., 1979
* Cornelia Bargmann, Ph.D., 1987
* Kevin Eggan, Ph.D., 2002
* Stephen J. Elledge, Ph.D., 1983
* Andrew Fire, Ph.D., 1983
* Leland H. Hartwell, Ph.D., 1964
* Richard O. Hynes, Ph.D., 1971
* Cynthia Kenyon, Ph.D., 1979
* Michael Rosbash
Michael Morris Rosbash (born March 7, 1944) is an American geneticist and chronobiologist. Rosbash is a professor and researcher at Brandeis University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Rosbash's research group cloned th ...
, Ph.D., 1970
* Allan C. Spradling, Ph.D., 1975
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