40 faculty and 40 courses in Bioinformatics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Eric S. Lander, Faculty h-index 271
Notable: “Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles” (2005) · 56,722 citations
- Rudolf Jaenisch, Faculty h-index 210
Notable: “Epigenetic regulation of gene expression: how the genome integrates intrinsic and environmental signals” (2003) · 6,304 citations
- Tyler Jacks, Faculty h-index 161
Notable: “MicroRNA expression profiles classify human cancers” (2005) · 9,573 citations
- Douglas Lauffenburger, Faculty h-index 126
Notable: “Cell Migration: A Physically Integrated Molecular Process” (1996) · 3,964 citations
- H. Robert Horvitz, Faculty h-index 124
Notable: “MicroRNA expression profiles classify human cancers” (2005) · 9,573 citations
- David Bartel, Faculty h-index 121
Notable: “MicroRNAs” (2004) · 34,869 citations
- David Housman, Faculty h-index 119
Notable: “p53-dependent apoptosis modulates the cytotoxicity of anticancer agents” (1993) · 2,943 citations
- Leonard P. Guarente, Faculty h-index 117
Notable: “Transcriptional silencing and longevity protein Sir2 is an NAD-dependent histone deacetylase” (2000) · 3,481 citations
- Sallie (Penny) W. Chisholm, Faculty h-index 103
Notable: “Combination of 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes with flow cytometry for analyzing mixed microbial populations” (1990) · 4,033 citations
- Ruth Lehmann, Faculty h-index 90
Notable: “Fly Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult fruit fly” (2022) · 856 citations
- Christopher Burge, Faculty h-index 85
Notable: “Conserved Seed Pairing, Often Flanked by Adenosines, Indicates that Thousands of Human Genes are MicroRNA Targets” (2005) · 11,951 citations
- Monty Krieger, Faculty h-index 85
Notable: “Identification of Scavenger Receptor SR-BI as a High Density Lipoprotein Receptor” (1996) · 2,327 citations
- Alan D. Grossman, Faculty h-index 77
Notable: “Regulation of noise in the expression of a single gene” (2002) · 1,640 citations
- Jianzhu Chen, Faculty h-index 73
Notable: “Interleukin-2 receptor α chain regulates the size and content of the peripheral lymphoid compartment” (1995) · 1,073 citations
- Tania A. Baker, Faculty h-index 72
Notable: “AAA+ Proteases: ATP-Fueled Machines of Protein Destruction” (2011) · 799 citations
- Barbara Imperiali, Faculty h-index 71
Notable: “Effect of N-linked glycosylation on glycopeptide and glycoprotein structure” (1999) · 392 citations
- Michael T. Laub, Faculty h-index 67
Notable: “Functional Characterization of the S. cerevisiae Genome by Gene Deletion and Parallel Analysis” (1999) · 4,031 citations
- Catherine Drennan, Faculty h-index 64
Notable: “How a Protein Binds B 12 : A 3.0 Å X-Ray Structure of B 12 -Binding Domains of Methionine Synthase” (1994) · 593 citations
- Stephen Bell, Faculty h-index 60
Notable: “DNA Replication in Eukaryotic Cells” (2002) · 2,036 citations
- Michael T. Hemann, Faculty h-index 60
Notable: “A microRNA polycistron as a potential human oncogene” (2005) · 3,495 citations
- Iain M. Cheeseman, Associate Dept. Head h-index 60
Notable: “The Conserved KMN Network Constitutes the Core Microtubule-Binding Site of the Kinetochore” (2006) · 1,031 citations
- Jacqueline Lees, Faculty h-index 59
Notable: “Sibling rivalry in the E2F family” (2002) · 1,161 citations
- Facundo Batista, Faculty h-index 55
Notable: “The who, how and where of antigen presentation to B cells” (2008) · 743 citations
- Chris A. Kaiser, Faculty h-index 45
Notable: “The Genetic Landscape of a Cell” (2010) · 2,247 citations
- Amy E. Keating, Department Head h-index 42
Notable: “Comprehensive Identification of Human bZIP Interactions with Coiled-Coil Arrays” (2003) · 458 citations
- Laurie A. Boyer, Co-Undergrad Officer h-index 41
Notable: “Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes” (2015) · 7,117 citations
- Matthew G. Jones, Faculty h-index 40
Es on three interrelated goals: (1) investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying the spatiotemporal dynamics of copy-number alterations (particularly extrachromosomal DNA) in cancer populations; (2) developing new computational methods
Notable: “Theta Rhythms Coordinate Hippocampal–Prefrontal Interactions in a Spatial Memory Task” (2005) · 1,060 citations
- Joseph (Joey) Davis, Faculty h-index 37
Notable: “Addressing preferred specimen orientation in single-particle cryo-EM through tilting” (2017) · 1,038 citations
- Mary Gehring, Graduate Officer h-index 31
Notable: “Ten things you should know about transposable elements” (2018) · 1,512 citations
- Siniša Hrvatin, Faculty h-index 20
Notable: “Single-cell analysis of experience-dependent transcriptomic states in the mouse visual cortex” (2017) · 557 citations
- Ankur Jain, Faculty h-index 18
Notable: “RNA phase transitions in repeat expansion disorders” (2017) · 959 citations
- Eliezer Calo, Faculty h-index 17
Notable: “Modification of Enhancer Chromatin: What, How, and Why?” (2013) · 1,576 citations
- Yiyin Erin Chen, Faculty h-index 16
Notable: “Skin microbiota–host interactions” (2018) · 790 citations
- Rebecca Lamason, Faculty h-index 14
Notable: “SLC24A5, a Putative Cation Exchanger, Affects Pigmentation in Zebrafish and Humans” (2005) · 1,065 citations
- Lindsay Case, Faculty h-index 13
Notable: “Stoichiometry controls activity of phase-separated clusters of actin signaling proteins” (2019) · 546 citations
- Olivia Corradin, Faculty h-index 12
Notable: “Combinatorial effects of multiple enhancer variants in linkage disequilibrium dictate levels of gene expression to confer susceptibility to common traits” (2013) · 392 citations
- Kristin Knouse, Faculty h-index 11
Notable: “Chromosome Mis-segregation Generates Cell-Cycle-Arrested Cells with Complex Karyotypes that Are Eliminated by the Immune System” (2017) · 398 citations
- Whitney Henry, Faculty h-index 9
Es on (i) uncovering the molecular factors affecting ferroptosis susceptibility, (ii) studying its impact on the tumor microenvironment, and (iii) developing innovative ways to modulate ferroptosis resistance in vivo. We employ a multidisci
Notable: “Plasticity of ether lipids promotes ferroptosis susceptibility and evasion” (2020) · 821 citations
- Yunha Hwang, Faculty h-index 7
Notable: “Viruses interact with hosts that span distantly related microbial domains in dense hydrothermal mats” (2023) · 100 citations
- Sally Kornbluth, President of MIT
Ed on the biological signals that tell a cell to start dividing or to self-destruct — processes that are key to understanding cancer as well as various degenerative disorders. She has published extensively on cell proliferation and programm
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.