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

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

sMutants of Channelrhodopsins with Altered Ion Selectivity

Technology / Case number: #16934TE
Edward Stuart Boyden / Nathan Klapoetke / Amy Chuong / Yongku Cho / Fei Chen
Technology Areas: Electronics & Photonics / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Electrical and Mechanical Assembly of High-Density Three-Dimensional Micro-Fabricated Arrays

Technology / Case number: #15252TE
Edward Stuart Boyden / Anthony Zorzos / Jorg Scholvin / Clifton Fonstad
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Energy & Distribution
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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