People

Doug Lauffenburger, Ph.D.

Ford Professor of Engineering, 2009-

Department of Biological Engineering; Professor, 1998-present; Head, 1998-2019
Department of Chemical Engineering; Professor, 1995-present
Department of Biology; Professor, 2002-present
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research; Affiliate, 1999-present
Center for Gynepathology Research; Member, 2009-present
The Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard; 2016-present
Biotechnology Process Engineering Center; Member, 1997-2008; Director, 1998-2003
Center for Biomedical Engineering; Member, 1995-present; Director, 1995-1998

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room: 16-429
Cambridge MA 02139 USA

Phone: (617) 252-1629
Fax: (617) 258-0204
Email: lauffen@mit.edu

Anisha Datta

anidatta@mit.edu
PhD Candidate (2019 cohort)
Investigating the Effect of AXL Inhibition on the Tumor Immune Microenvironment

Andrew Ding

azding@mit.edu
PhD Candidate (2023 cohort)
Integrating computational and experimental approaches to engineer in vitro biological systems

Diana Gong

dgong@mit.edu
PhD candidate (2018 cohort)
Impact of efferocytosis on Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of macrophages

Luka Karginov

lukaak2@mit.edu
PhD candidate (2022 cohort)
Sparse Inverse Covariance Estimation to learn connections between Immune features and disease outcomes

Nikolaos Meimetis

meimetis@mit.edu
PhD candidate (2021 cohort)
Computational Omics’ Translation Models for Designing Better Experimental Disease Models

Erin Tevonian

erintevo@mit.edu
PhD candidate (2019 cohort)
Engineered liver models for the characterization of immune-tissue interactions in hepatic insulin resistance

Christine Wiggins

daviscld@mit.edu
PhD candidate (2020 cohort)
Systems Biology Approach to Generation of Protective Humoral Immune Response Against Human Pathogens

Hratch Baghdassarian

bjoughin@mit.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
Systems biology to understand the multi-cellular immune response

Kate Bridges

khbridg@mit.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
Characterization of host immune responses through cross-species -omics translation

Jose Cadavid

jcadavid@mit.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
Combining systems biology and 3D in vitro models tools to understand complex tissue pathologies

Yixiang Deng

ydeng9@mit.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
Computational system serology for vaccine designs

Wonyeong Jung

wonyeong@mit.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
Computational investigation of humoral immunity

Paola (Andy) Lopez

plopez@mit.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
Computational Analysis of the dynamic maternal immune system during pregnancy

Krista Pullen

kpullen@mit.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
Computational omics analysis in infectious and inflammatory disease

Brian Joughin

bjoughin@mit.edu
Research Scientist
Computational Analysis of Signaling Biology