Doug Lauffenburger

Douglas A. Lauffenburger is an American academic who is the Ford Professor of Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (since 2009). He is a member of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and MIT Center for Gynepathology Research as well as an Affiliate, The Ragon Institute of MIT, MGH and Harvard.[1] He is also editor in chief of the journal Integrative Biology.[2]

Lauffenburger’s lab “emphasizes integration of experimental and mathematical/computational analysis approaches, toward development and validation of predictive models for physiologically-relevant behavior in terms of underlying molecular and molecular network properties.”[3]

Biography

Lauffenburger earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.[1]

Lauffenburger was a professor at the University of Illinois and the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin before his tenure at MIT. He was a visiting scientist at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.[1]

At MIT, he has been a Professor at the Department of Biological Engineering since 1998 and was then Head, 1998-2019; Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, 1995-present; Professor, Department of Biology, 2002-present.[4][5]

References
  1. "Douglas A. Lauffenburger, PhD". Biological Engineering. MIT. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  2. "Integrative Biology". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  3. "Doug Lauffenburger Research Group". MIT. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  4. "Doug Lauffenburger : Research Group". MIT. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  5. Zhong, Vivian (April 18, 2019). "Doug Lauffenburger reflects on time as inaugural biological engineering department head". The Tech. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
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