Edward Stuart Boyden

Tan Professor of Neurotechnology

Department

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Technology Areas

Communication Systems: Optical, Wireless / Electronics & Photonics: Photonics / Sensing & Imaging: Optical Sensing, Acoustics, Imaging / Biotechnology: Biomedical Devices & Systems, Sensors & Monitoring, Synthetic Biology, DNA & RNA Editing / Industrial Engineering & Automation: Autonomous Systems, Manufacturing & Equipment / Chemicals & Materials: Catalysis & Synthesis, Polymers, Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials, Composites / Biomaterials & Bioelectronics: Health Monitoring / Diagnostics: Assays, Imaging Agents / Drug Discovery and Research Tools: Genomics & Proteomics, Cell Interrogation, Antibodies / Therapeutics: Cell Based Therapy, Nucleic Acids, Proteins & Antibodies, Small Molecules / Drug Delivery: Microparticles & Nanoparticles, Vectors & Virus like Particles / Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) / Computer Science: Bioinformatics / Energy & Distribution: Electrochemical Devices

Impact Areas

Connected World, Healthy Living, Advanced Materials

Background and Education

Professor Ed Boyden completed his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and a Master of Engineering at MIT. He completed PhD studies as a fellow in the Neurosciences Program at Stanford University. Professor Boyden joined MIT as an Assistant Professor in 2007, and is now a Professor in the Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Media Arts and Sciences, and Biological Engineering, and an HHMI investigator.

Awards and Honors

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Member, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows
Member, National Academy of Inventors
Wilhelm Exner Medal, Austrian Industry Association | 2020
Croonian Medal, The Royal Society | 2019
Warren Alpert Prize, Warren Alpert Foundation | 2019
Lennart Nilsson Award, Karolinska Institutet | 2019
Rumford Prize, American Academy of Arts and Sciences | 2019
Canada Gairdner International Award, Gairdner Foundation | 2018
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences | 2016
Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine, BBVA Foundation | 2015
Young Investigator Award, Society for Neuroscience | 2015
Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University | 2015
Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine, Brandeis University | 2013
NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, National Institutes of Health | 2013
Brain Prize (formerly known as the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize), Lundbeck Foundation | 2013
Perl/UNC Prize in Neuroscience, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine | 2011

Technologies