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Explore
Exposure to the wide variety of career options available to a student interested in the biotechnology industry, including discussion panels and site visits.
Learn
Seminars and mini-courses on topics identified by biotechnology industry leaders as common knowledge gaps for undergraduates, PhD students, and postdocs transitioning from academia.
Connect
Network with professionals and executives from biotechnology companies, and various sub-sectors of the biotechnology industry from Boston’s booming biotechnology cluster.
Vision
The MIT Biotechnology Group aims to increase the pace of biotechnological innovation by building strong, symbiotic relationships between the MIT community and thought-leaders in academia, industry, and business. We endeavor to serve the MIT community by facilitating development of the knowledge, skills, networks, and experiences to prepare members for biotechnology-related careers.
#BlackLivesMatter
MIT Biotech Group condemns police brutality, racism, and systemic oppression. We stand in solidarity with other biotech organizations to promote knowledge about racial inequality within the biotech industry, increase the representation of Black and minority perspectives in our events, and outreach. Read more about our coalition and action items at diversitybiotech.org
Executive Team
Desmond is a fourth-year undergraduate double majoring in Biology and Biological Engineering with a minor in French. His research in the Lamason lab focuses on understanding the lifecycle of the tick-borne bacterial pathogen, Rickettsia parkeri, both through development of genetic tools and characterisation of novel genes of interest. He has been involved with MBG since his freshman year in 2018, having previously served as Undergraduate President (2020-2021) and Co-Director of the Industry Initiative (2019-2020).
Desmond Edwards
Co-President
Sam is a PhD Student in Computational and Systems Biology at MIT. He is advised by Dr. Connor Coley and is primarily interested in developing machine learning methods for enzyme discovery and engineering. He has been involved in the Entrepreneurship Initiative since Fall 2019.
Sam Goldman
Co-President
Sherry is an undergraduate student in Computer Science and Molecular Biology at MIT. Her research in the Bartel Lab is on host and viral mRNA metabolism post viral infection. Sherry aspires for a career applying technical skills to advance biotech, and hopes to start her own biotech company someday. She has been involved in MBG since 2019, serving as the Director of the Undergrad Initiative in 2020-21.
Sherry Nyeo
Undergraduate President
Keegan is a PhD Candidate in the Health Sciences & Technology (HST) program at MIT. Her research focuses on the design and development of medical devices for epicardial drug delivery and intracardiac defect repair. She holds a master’s degree in Bioscience Enterprise from the University of Cambridge and has been involved with MBG since Fall 2019 as a member of the Entrepreneurship Initiative and chair of the DEI Committee.
Keegan Mendez
Vice President of Finance
Morgan is a PhD student in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT. She is a member of Samir Mitragotri’s lab at Harvard SEAS, where she develops cell-based drug delivery platforms for the treatment of inflammatory diseases. She has been involved with the industry initiative since starting at MIT in 2019.
Morgan Janes
Vice President of Professional Development
Meet our Initiative Directors
Meilin is a PhD Student in Biological Engineering at MIT, and is advised by Dr. Paul Blainey. She uses microfluidics to discover new antibiotic therapies and study how microbial communities can be shaped and manipulated across health and disease. She has been involved with MBG since Fall 2020.
Meilin Zhu
Entrepreneurship Initiative Co-Director
Vikram is a PhD student in Computational and Systems Biology at MIT, advised by Dr. Kevin Esvelt and co-advised by Drs. Regina Barzilay and Tommi Jaakkola. He is interested in machine learning for structural biology and currently researches the application of machine learning to phage-assisted continuous evolution for protein design. He has been involved with MBG since Fall 2020.
Vikram Sundar
Entrepreneurship Initiative Co-Director
Drew is a PhD Student in Chemical Engineering at MIT, advised by Dr. Chris Love. His research focuses on the computational design and development of manufacturing techniques for ultra low-cost vaccines. He has previously been involved with MBG as a Senior Associate in the Entrepreneurship Initiative where he organized discussions on public biotech investments.
Drew Biedermann
Entrepreneurship Initiative Co-Director
Keith is a PhD Student in Chemical Engineering at MIT. He is advised by Dr. Dane Wittrup and Dr. Ronald Raines and is primarily interested in developing strategies for the intracellular delivery of cancer-targeting protein drugs. He has been involved with MBG since Fall 2020, previously as an Associate of the Industry Initiative.
Keith Cheah
Industry Initiative Co-Director
Gurrein is a PhD candidate in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Her research in Dr. Steven Flavell’s lab investigates the genes and circuits that underlie the serotonergic control of behaviors. To do so, she employs genetic, molecular biology, GCaMP imaging and behavioral analysis tools. She has been involved with MBG since Fall 2020, first as an associate and then as a senior associate in the Entrepreneurship Initiative.
Gurrein Madan
Industry Initiative Co-Director
Sarah is a second-year undergraduate in Biological Engineering and Biology at MIT. Her work in the Grossman Lab focuses on studying mobile genetic elements and horizontal gene transfer in bacteria to gain insight on how microorganisms evolve, communicate, and coordinate to meet their needs. She has been involved with MBG since Fall 2020, previously serving as Senior Associate for Undergraduate Education.
Sarah Syed
Undergrad Initiative Director
Vincent is a PhD Candidate in the Health Sciences & Technology (HST) program at MIT. His research with Dr. Alex Shalek focuses on applying cutting-edge genomics approaches to understand host-pathogen interactions in infectious disease. He has previously been involved with MBG as an Associate in the Entrepreneurship Initiative and Senior Associate coordinating MBG’s partnership in the Diversify Biotech Coalition.
Vincent Miao
Diversity & Outreach Chair
Meet our Senior Associates
Jon is a PhD student in Biological Engineering at MIT, co-advised by Dr. David Gifford and Dr. Michael Birnbaum. His research focuses on using machine learning to design targeted cancer therapeutics. He has been involved with MBG since the fall of 2020 working with the Industry and Entrepreneurship initiatives.
Jon Krog
Public Investing Nanocourse
Brandon is a PhD student in the HST Program of Harvard and MIT. His work in Krystyn Van Vliet’s lab focuses on the intersection of drug delivery and cell-based therapies for improved clinical translatability of regenerative medicine. Brandon has been involved with the Entrepreneurship Initiative since arriving at MIT in Fall 2020.
Brandon Krupczak
VC Dinner Series
Megan is a PhD candidate in the Biological Engineering department at MIT, advised by Dr. Paul Blainey. She is generally interested in infectious diseases and drug discovery. Her current research focuses on using microfluidics and imaging for antibiotic combinations discovery.
Megan Tse
Mentorship program
Jessie is a sophomore intending to major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a passion in creating novel computational solutions in the healthcare industry. She has worked in the Langer Lab developing nanoparticle-based targeted drug delivery system for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). She is interested in developing AI and machine learning models that can be applied to improving the current challenges in the biotech industry.
Jessie Lee
Digital Content Manager
Anru is a third-year undergraduate student in Biological Engineering. Her research interests mainly revolve around sustainability, plants, and the environment tracing back to gravitropism research in the Wyatt lab at Ohio University and her current work on natural product discovery and metabolomics in the Weng lab at the Whitehead Biomedical Institute at MIT. Anru hopes to make the world a better and more equitable place through science and her youth outreach work at MBG. She has been involved since Fall 2020.
Anru Tian
Education & Outreach
Lauren is a PhD Student in Biological Engineering at MIT, advised by Dane Wittrup. She is interested in protein engineering approaches to downregulate immunosuppressive cell surface receptors involved in cancer immunotherapy within the tumor microenvironment. She has been invovled with MBG since Fall of 2020.
Lauren Duhamel
Open Problems in the Field
Jeff is a 2nd year MBA student at the Sloan School of Management. He works on the MBG entrepreneurship initiative and co-manages or directs the Boston Chapter of Nucleate, the Sloan Healthcare Innovation Prize, and the Harvard-MIT Ideation Initiative. Prior to Sloan he worked in life sciences strategy consulting.
Jeff Knox
Nucleate
Rona is a 2nd year MBA student at the Sloan School of Management. She works on the MBG entrepreneurship initiative and is a Co-President of the MIT Sloan Healthcare Club. Rona has previous experience in life sciences strategy consulting, digital therapeutics, and biopharma business development.
Rona Sun
Life Sciences Consulting
Dilyara is a Chemistry PhD student at MIT, advised by Prof. Ron Raines. Her current research explores enzymology of ribonucleases towards the development of cancer therapeutics. Dilyara has been involved with MBG since Fall 2021 as an Associate in the Industry initiative.
Dilyara Sharipova
PhD to Leadership
Rac is a first-year undergraduate student majoring in Biological Engineering. His research in the Housman Lab is focused on identifying and analyzing modifier genes which are responsible for age of onset variation in Huntington’s Disease. He has been involved with MBG since Fall 2021, previously serving as an Associate in the Undergraduate Initiative.
Rac Mukkamala
Undergrad Seminar Series
Anika is a first-year undergraduate student in Biological Engineering and Biology at MIT. Her research at the Irvine lab is focused on cancer immunotherapies and vaccine spacing, dosage, and efficacy. She has been involved with MBG since Fall 2021 as an associate in the Undergraduate Initiative.
Anika Wadhera
Undergrad Seminar Series
Grace is a first-year undergraduate student at MIT planning to major in Chemical-Biological Engineering. Her research in the Wittrup Lab focuses on engineering proteins to reduce the toxic effects of cytokines as a cancer immunotherapy. She currently serves as a Senior Associate within the MIT Biotech Group.
Grace Yang
Undergrad Professional Development
Kelly is a second year undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science. Her work in the Bryson lab focuses on developing and testing epitope tags for mycobacteria, as well as data analysis for single-cell RNA sequencing. She has been involved with MBG since fall 2020, previously as an associate with the undergraduate initiative.
Kelly Xu
Undergrad Career Panel
Victory is a first-year undergraduate student planning to major in either Biological Engineering or Computer Science and Biology at MIT. Her research in the Weissman Lab at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is focused on developing the next generation of epigenetic editors by characterizing protein domains that can cause long-term gene silencing. Victory is a Senior Associate in the Undergraduate Initiative of the MIT Biotech Group.
Victory Yinka-Banjo
Undergrad Big Events & Collaborations
Ezra Yaador
Scientific Education Lead
Meet our Faculty Advisory Board
Sangeeta Bhatia
John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty Advisor
Angela Koehler
Samuel A. Goldblith Career Development Professor in Applied Biology of Biological Engineering
Faculty Advisor
Bob Langer
David H. Koch Institute Professor
Faculty Advisor
Johnathan Weissman
Landon T. Clay Professor of Biology
Faculty Advisor
Feng Zhang
James and Patricia Poitras Professorship of Neuroscience and of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biological Engineering
Faculty Advisor
Sean Clarke
Communication Instructor of Biological Engineering & Biotech Liaison
Faculty Advisor
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