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, Tissue Engineering / Industrial Engineering & Automation: Autonomous Systems, Manufacturing & Equipment / Chemicals & Materials: Catalysis & Synthesis, Polymers, Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials, Composites / Biomaterials & Bioelectronics: Health Monitoring, Tissue Repair / 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

Protein Retention Expansion Microscopy

Non-Exclusively Licensed Technology / Case number: #18129TE
Edward Stuart Boyden / Chih-Chieh (Jay) Yu / Paul Tillberg / Fei Chen
Technology Areas: Diagnostics / Drug Discovery and Research Tools / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Single-Molecule Protein Sequencing by Intramolecular Expansion

Exclusively Licensed Technology / Case number: #22799TEH
Edward Stuart Boyden / Jacob Rodriguez / Daniel Estandian
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Drug Discovery and Research Tools
Impact Areas: Healthy Living

Somatic Opsins for Single Cell Resolution Optogenetics

Non-Exclusively Licensed Technology, Tangible Property / Case number: #18756TE
Edward Stuart Boyden / Changyang Linghu / Or Shemesh
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Diagnostics / Drug Discovery and Research Tools / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Method for Examining Podocyte Foot Processes in Human Renal Samples Using Conventional Optical Microscopy

Non-Exclusively Licensed Technology, Tangible Property / Case number: #18385TEJ
Edward Stuart Boyden / Octavian Bucur / Andrew Beck / Yongxin Zhao
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Biotechnology / Chemicals & Materials / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Iterative Expansion Microscopy

Non-Exclusively Licensed Technology / Case number: #17875TE
Edward Stuart Boyden / Paul Tillberg / Fei Chen / Jae-Byum Chang
Technology Areas: Drug Discovery and Research Tools / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Nanoscale Imaging of Proteins and Nucleic Acids via Expansion Microscopy

Non-Exclusively Licensed Technology / Case number: #18127TEYJQ
Edward Stuart Boyden / Shahar Alon / Evan Daugharthy / Fei Chen / Asmamaw Wassie / George Church
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Diagnostics / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Methods for Expanding Clinical Tissue Specimens

Non-Exclusively Licensed Technology / Case number: #18384TEJ
Edward Stuart Boyden / Octavian Bucur / Andrew Beck / Yongxin Zhao
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Chemicals & Materials / Diagnostics
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sMutants of Channelrhodopsins with Altered Ion Selectivity

Technology / Case number: #16934TE
Edward Stuart Boyden / Fei Chen / Yongku Cho / Amy Chuong / Nathan Klapoetke
Technology Areas: Electronics & Photonics / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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A Method for Automated Opening of Craniotomies for Mammalian Brain Access

Technology / Case number: #17631TEM
Edward Stuart Boyden / Justin Kinney / Nikita Pak
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Industrial Engineering & Automation
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Channelrhodopsin Variants and Uses Thereof

Technology, Software / Case number: #17893TEJQ
Gane Wong / Yongku Cho / Nathan Klapoetke / Edward Stuart Boyden / Brian Chow
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials / Electronics & Photonics
Impact Areas: Connected World
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