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
Katharina Ribbeck / Corey Alfred Stevens / Robert Prud'homme / Boris Sevarika / Angela Belcher
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
Shengnan Huang / Angela Belcher
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
Yanpu He / Celestine Jia Huey Hong / Valeria Marquez Pellegrin / Mirielle Griffin / Jack Rudrum / Angela Belcher
Technology Areas: Biotechnology
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Tunable Localized Surface Plasmon-Enabled Broadband Light Harvesting Enhancement for Panchromatic Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Technology / Case number: #15790
Xiangnan Dang / Paula Hammond / Angela Belcher / Jifa Qi
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials / Electronics & Photonics / Energy & Distribution
Impact Areas: Sustainable Future
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Fabrication of Electrostatically Mediated and Self-Assembled Monolayer of Macromolecules on Mobility-Enhancing Polyelectrolyte Multilayer

Technology / Case number: #11837
Piljin Yoo / Soo-Kwan Lee / Paula Hammond / Juhyun Park / Angela Belcher / Ki Tae Nam / Jifa Qi
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials / Computer Science / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Biological Synthesis of Perovskite Nanomaterials

Technology / Case number: #14551
Nurxat (Nuerxiati) Nuraje (Nueraji) / Yu Lei / Angela Belcher
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Chemicals & Materials
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
Nandini Rajan / Laura Brattain / Neelkanth Manoj Bardhan / Alexander Bagley / Adam Milstein / Sangeeta Bhatia / Andy Siegel / Angela Belcher / Lily Lee
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Microporous Carbon Nanofibers

Technology / Case number: #20186
Geran Zhang / Angela Belcher / Jifa Qi
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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M13 Phage-Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Molecularly Targeted Imaging of Tumors Using Second Near-Infrared Fluorescence

Technology / Case number: #14969
Michael S. Strano / Hyunjung Yi / Debadyuti Ghosh / Neelkanth Manoj Bardhan / Angela Belcher / Jifa Qi
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Biotechnology / Chemicals & Materials / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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A Machine Learning-guided Whole-Organ Optical Imaging Technique for Non-destructive Identification of Early Pre-Cancer Lesions and Harvesting of Viable Cells from the same for Organoid Culture

Technology / Case number: #25480
Neelkanth Manoj Bardhan / Vivek Rastogi / Angela Belcher
Technology Areas: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) / Biotechnology / Chemicals & Materials / Drug Discovery and Research Tools / Electronics & Photonics / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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