Dr. Lauffenburger is the Director of the Biological Engineering Division and Uncas & Helen Whitaker Professor of Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also a Member of the Center for Cancer Research, Center for Biomedical Engineering, and Biotechnology Process Engineering Center at MIT. He serves as Director on the Executive Committee of the MIT Computational & Systems Biology Initiative. Dr. Lauffenburger is presently on the Board of Directors of Genstruct and has served as a consultant and/or scientific advisory board member for Astra-Zeneca, CellPro, Entelos, Insert Therapeutics, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, SyStemix, the Burroughs-Wellcome Foundation, and the Whitaker Foundation. Dr. Lauffenburger earned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota. |