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Noubar Afeyan

Noubar Afeyan is founder, Managing Partner and CEO of Flagship Ventures, a leading early stage venture capital firm. He also leads the firm's VentureLabs unit that invents and launches transformative startups. He is a Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management where he has taught courses on technology entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership since 2000. Dr. Afeyan has authored numerous scientific publications and patents since earning his Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from MIT in 1987. He lectures widely in the United States and internationally on diverse topics ranging...Read more

Michael Shuler

Shuler graduated with a PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1973 and a BS from the University of Notre Dame in 1969. Both degrees were in Chemical Engineering. He received an Honorary Doctorate from Notre Dame in 2008.

He joined Cornell in 1974 in the School of Chemical Engineering. He is currently the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Chemical Engineering and the James and Marsha McCormick Chair of Biomedical Engineering. He was the Director for the School of Chemical Engineering from 1998 to 2002 and the founding chair for Biomedical Engineering (2004 - present). Additionally, he...Read more

Edwin Lightfoot

Research interest

My specific concerns are the development of improved separation processes and controlling the dynamics of biological systems. These interests are complementary in that both are intended to further the growth of biotechnology. Most of my research is long-range and conducted by predoctoral students, but I am increasingly involved in more applied problems.
Separations, though little noted by the public, are vital and expensive components of glamorous new fields, such as biotechnology, and important older industries. They are large consumers of free energy and...Read more

George Georgiou

George Georgiou is Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the 2019 AIChE Institute Award winner of The William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature.

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James C. Liao

Our research has focused on metabolism, including its biochemistry, extension, and regulation. We use metabolic engineering,synthetic biology, and systems biology to construct microorganisms to produce next generation biofuels and to study the obesity problem in human. We also develop mathematical tools for investigating metabolism and guiding engineering design. Currently, our main projects include engineering proteins and biochemical pathways for CO2 fixation and produciton of fuels and chemicals. Our ultimate goal is to use biochemical methods to replace petroleum processing and to...Read more

Harvey Blanch

Research Interests

Current research in the Blanch lab is focused on three areas:


Protein interactions: The broad objectives of this research are to develop molecular-thermodynamic descriptions of the behavior of proteins in electrolyte solutions, to provide a framework for the design and optimization of protein separation systems, in particular protein separation by precipitation and protein crystallization.


DNA Electrophoresis: By observing single-molecule DNA-polymer entanglements directly as DNA electrophoreses through a capillary, we see that DNA/polymer...Read more

Chaitan Khosla

Research interests in this laboratory lie at the interface between chemistry and biology. Assembly line enzymes such as polyketide synthases have extraordinary potential for the programmable biosynthesis of complex natural products. Our laboratory seeks to understand the mechanistic logic of assembly line polyketide synthases, and to harness these insights in order to engineer new antibiotics. The prototypical system of interest to us is the 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase, which synthesizes the macrocyclic core of erythromycin. Other examples of antibiotic biosynthetic pathways under...Read more

Celeste M. Nelson

Celeste joined the Chemical & Biological Engineering department at Princeton in 2007 as an Assistant Professor. After earning S.B. degrees in Chemical Engineering and Biology at MIT in 1998, Celeste attended the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she was awarded her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 2003 for work completed with Christopher Chen. Celeste then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Mina Bissell's group in the Life Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Celeste's contributions to the fields of tissue mechanics and morphogenesis...Read more

Chris Voigt

Professor Voigt obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a PhD in Biochemistry and Biophysics at the California Institute of Technology.Read more

Pamela Silver

Pamela Silver is the Adams Professor of Biochemistry and Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.  She received her BS in Chemistry and PhD in Biochemistry from the University of California. Her work has been recognized by an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association, a Research Scholar of the March of Dimes, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, Claudia Adams Barr Investigator, an NIH MERIT award, the Philosophical Society Lecture, a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute, and...Read more

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