Douglas A. Lauffenburger is an American academic who is the Ford Professor of Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Biology at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

(since 2009). He is a member of the David H.

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and MIT Center for Gynepathology Research as well as an Affiliate, The Ragon Institute of MIT, MGH and

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. He is also editor in chief of the journal '' Integrative Biology''. Lauffenburger’s lab “emphasizes integration of experimental and mathematical/computational analysis approaches, toward development and validation of predictive models for physiologically-relevant behavior in terms of underlying molecular and molecular network properties.” He is also one of six MIT professors elected as a fellow of the

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(AAAS).

Biography

Lauffenburger earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univer ...

and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

. Lauffenburger was a professor at the University of Illinois and the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

and a visiting professor at the

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before his tenure at MIT. He was a visiting scientist at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. At MIT, he has been a professor at the Department of Biological Engineering since 1998 and was then Head, 1998-2019; Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, 1995-present; Professor, Department of Biology, 2002-present. In February 2021 Lauffenburger co-authored a paper in

Nature Communications ''Nature Communications'' is a peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio since 2010. It is a multidisciplinary journal and it covers the natural sciences, including physics, chemistry, earth sciences, medici ...

on how a certain level of

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anti-bodies may provide lasting protection against the virus. The paper was based on blood samples provided voluntarily by 4300 employees of

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crediting also its CEO

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PubMed Publications List
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