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

Aria R Eppinger

ariaepp@mit.edu
MEng candidate
Computational analysis of single-cell & spatial omics data

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)
Probabilistic graphical network modeling of complex immune system-associated pathologies

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 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

Katarina DiLillo

kdilillo@mit.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
Computational analysis of multi-modal immune networks in systems biology

Paulina Eberts

peberts@mit.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
Cross-species translation approaches in cancer therapeutics applications

Wonyeong Jung

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

Evgenii Kliuchnikov

evkliuch@mit.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
Computational analysis and modeling in immune system dynamics and therapeutics

Paola (Andy) Lopez

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

Brian Joughin

bjoughin@mit.edu
Research Scientist
Computational analysis of signaling biology

Sarah Pertsemlidis

perts@mit.edu
Senior Research Support Associate
Live cell reporting and modeling of decidualization for endometriosis