Angela Belcher

Professor, Biological Eng and Mat'l Sci & Eng
Department
Department of Biological Engineering
Technology Areas
Chemicals & Materials: Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials, Polymers, Catalysis & Synthesis / Energy & Distribution: Hydrocarbons, Photovoltaics, Electrochemical Devices, Energy Storage / Sensing & Imaging: Chemical & Radiation Sensing, Imaging, Optical Sensing / Electronics & Photonics: Lasers, Photonics, Quantum Technology / Biotechnology: Synthetic Biology, Biomanufacturing, Biomedical Devices & Systems, Sensors & Monitoring, Tissue Engineering / Environmental Engineering: Water Treatment, Carbon Capture / Therapeutics: Nucleic Acids, Small Molecules, Proteins & Antibodies, Vaccines, Cell Based Therapy / Drug Delivery: Microparticles & Nanoparticles, Vectors & Virus like Particles / Drug Discovery and Research Tools: Genomics & Proteomics, Cell Lines & Organoids / Biomaterials & Bioelectronics: Tissue Repair, Health Monitoring / Diagnostics: Imaging Agents / Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) / Computer Science: Bioinformatics
Impact Areas
Climate Stabilization, Sustainable Future, Healthy Living, Uncharted Frontiers, Advanced Materials

Background and Education

Angela Belcher is a materials scientist, biological engineer, and professor at MIT. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she received her Bachelor's degree from the College of Creative Studies in 1991 and her PhD in chemistry in 1997. Belcher was awarded the 24th annual MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the 2004 Four Star General Recognition Award. In 2006 she was named Scientific American's Research Leader of the Year. Her work has been published in many prestigious scientific journals including Science and Nature, and has been reported in the popular press including Fortune, Forbes, Discover, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Awards and Honors

  • Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineers (NAE)
  • Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Winner of the 2013 MIT-Lemelson Prize

Technologies

Utilizing a Strategic Blend of Block Copolymers to Control Particle Surface Charge for Enhanced Mucus Transport and Tissue Targeting

Technology / Case number: #25439J
Angela Belcher / Brian Wilson / Boris Sevarika / Robert Prud'homme / Corey Alfred Stevens / Katharina Ribbeck
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Chemicals & Materials
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Reprogram the Genome of M13 Phage for Vaccination and Immunotherapy Applications

Technology / Case number: #25169
Angela Belcher / Shengnan Huang
Technology Areas: Drug Discovery and Research Tools / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Endotoxin-Free Phage Production for Clinical Applications and Food Safety

Technology / Case number: #26012
Angela Belcher / Jack Rudrum / Mirielle Griffin / Valeria Marquez Pellegrin / Celestine Jia Huey Hong / Yanpu He
Technology Areas: Biotechnology
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Enhancing Video-Rate Fluorescence Imagery Collected in the Second Near-Infrared Optical Window for Diagnostic Real-Time Surgical and Post-Surgical Applications

Technology / Case number: #17022L
Sangeeta Bhatia / Adam Milstein / Alexander Bagley / Neelkanth Manoj Bardhan / Laura Brattain / Nandini Rajan / Lily Lee / Angela Belcher / Andy Siegel
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Microporous Carbon Nanofibers

Technology / Case number: #20186
Angela Belcher / Geran Zhang / Jifa Qi
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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Optimization of Circular Single Stranded DNA using M13 Phage

Technology / Case number: #21211
Angela Belcher / Tae-Gon Cha / Uyanga Tsedev / Christopher Voigt
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Drug Discovery and Research Tools
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Cheaper, Environmentally Friendly, and Sustainable Biofuel Production through Yeast System

Technology / Case number: #21974
Angela Belcher / Shalmalee Pandit
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Chemicals & Materials
Impact Areas: Sustainable Future
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M13 Bacteriophage with a High Cysteine Content and Genetically Engineerable Hydrogels

Technology / Case number: #22369
Angela Belcher / Nimrod Heldman / William Records
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Biotechnology / Chemicals & Materials / Drug Delivery
Impact Areas: Healthy Living, Advanced Materials
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M13 Phage based Gene Therapy Platform (Chapter 4 of Thesis Work)

Technology / Case number: #23296
Angela Belcher / Uyanga Tsedev
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Chemicals & Materials / Diagnostics / Drug Delivery / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Recombinant Transmembrane Domain-Deficient STING as Biomimetic Protein Carrier for cGAMP Enhanced Cancer Immunotherapy

Technology / Case number: #25012
Paula Hammond / Celestine Jia Huey Hong / Shengnan Huang / Yanpu He / Jiahe Li / Angela Belcher
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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