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