# MIT Department of Biology

The MIT Department of Biology ("Course VII") is a center for research and teaching in the life sciences. Many members of the faculty hold joint appointments with other departments at MIT and with outside institutions.

## Faculty members

As of 2020 faculty members include:

### Full Professors

* Tania A. Baker
* David Bartel
* Stephen P. Bell
* Christopher Burge
* Iain Cheeseman
* Jianzhu Chen
* Cathy Drennan
* Gerald Fink
* Frank Gertler
* Alan Grossman
* Leonard P. Guarente
* H. Robert Horvitz, S.B. 1968
* David Housman
* Richard Hynes
* Barbara Imperiali
* Tyler Jacks
* Rudolf Jaenisch
* Chris Kaiser
* Amy Keating
* Monty Krieger
* Eric S. Lander
* Michael T. Laub
* Jacqueline Lees
* Troy Littleton
* Harvey F. Lodish
* David C. Page
* Uttam RajBhandary
* Peter Reddien
* Aviv Regev
* David M. Sabatini
* Robert T. Sauer
* Thomas Schwartz
* Phillip A. Sharp
* Anthony Sinskey
* Hazel Sive
* Frank Solomon
* Lisa Steiner
* Susumu Tonegawa
* Matthew Vander Heiden
* Graham Walker
* Robert A. Weinberg, Ph.D. 1969
* Michael B. Yaffe
* Richard A. Young

### Associate professors

* Laurie Boyer
* Mary Gehring
* Michael Hemann
* Adam C. Martin

### Assistant professors

* Eliezer Calo
* Lindsay Case
* Joseph H. Davis
* Ankur Jain
* Rebecca Lamason
* Gene-Wei Li
* Pulin Li
* Sebastian Lourido
* Stefani Spranger
* Seychelle Vos
* Omer 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
* 2004-2012 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 among its faculty and alumni. They are:
* Michael Rosbash, 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, 1975
* Salvador Luria, 1969
* Har Gobind Khorana, 1968

### Former faculty

Former faculty include:
* Angelika Amon
* Gene Brown
* Arnold Demain
* Herman Eisen
* Vernon Ingram
* Susan Lindquist
* Maurice Fox
* Har Gobind Khorana
* Irving London
* Salvador Luria
* Alexander Rich

### Other notable alumni

Other notable alumni include
* Victor Ambros, 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, Ph.D., 1970
* Allan C. Spradling, Ph.D., 1975