Bioinformatics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

40 faculty and 40 courses in Bioinformatics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Faculty

• Eric S. Lander, Faculty h-index 271
• Rudolf Jaenisch, Faculty h-index 210
• Tyler Jacks, Faculty h-index 161
• Douglas Lauffenburger, Faculty h-index 126
• H. Robert Horvitz, Faculty h-index 124
• David Bartel, Faculty h-index 121
• David Housman, Faculty h-index 119
• Leonard P. Guarente, Faculty h-index 117
• Ruth Lehmann, Faculty h-index 90
• Monty Krieger, Faculty h-index 85
• Alan D. Grossman, Faculty h-index 77
• Barbara Imperiali, Faculty h-index 71
• Michael T. Laub, Faculty h-index 67
• Catherine Drennan, Faculty h-index 64
• Stephen Bell, Faculty h-index 60
• Michael T. Hemann, Faculty h-index 60
• Iain M. Cheeseman, Associate Dept. Head h-index 60
• Jacqueline Lees, Faculty h-index 59
• Laurie A. Boyer, Co-Undergrad Officer h-index 41
• 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
• Mary Gehring, Graduate Officer h-index 31
• Siniša Hrvatin, Faculty h-index 20
• Ankur Jain, Faculty h-index 18
• Eliezer Calo, Faculty h-index 17
• Rebecca Lamason, Faculty h-index 14
• Lindsay Case, Faculty h-index 13
• Olivia Corradin, Faculty h-index 12
• 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
• Yunha Hwang, Faculty h-index 7
• Christopher Burge, Faculty h-index 6
• Facundo Batista, Faculty h-index 4
• Amy E. Keating, Department Head
• Chris A. Kaiser, Faculty
• Jianzhu Chen, Faculty
• Joseph (Joey) Davis, Faculty
• Kristin Knouse, Faculty
• Sallie (Penny) W. Chisholm, Faculty
• 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
• Tania A. Baker, Faculty
• Yiyin Erin Chen, Faculty

Courses

• Introductory Biology 7.012
• Fundamentals of Experimental Molecular Biology 7.002
• Applied Molecular Biology Laboratory 7.003[J]
• Genetics 7.03
• General Biochemistry 7.05
• Cell Biology 7.06
• Fundamentals of Chemical Biology 7.08[J]
• Modern Biostatistics 7.093
• Modern Computational Biology 7.094
• Introduction to Molecular Biology Techniques 7.102
• Microbial Physiology 7.21
• Immunology 7.23[J]
• Advanced Concepts in Immunology 7.24
• Molecular Basis of Infectious Disease 7.26
• Principles of Human Disease and Aging 7.27
• Molecular Biology 7.28
• Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology 7.29[J]
• Fundamentals of Ecology 7.30[J]
• Current Topics in Mammalian Biology: Medical Implications 7.31
• Systems Biology 7.32
• Evolutionary Biology: Concepts, Models and Computation 7.33[J]
• Human Genetics and Genomics 7.35
• The CRISPR Revolution: Engineering the Genome 7.36
• Molecular and Engineering Aspects of Biotechnology 7.37[J]
• Design Principles of Biological Systems 7.38
• The Hallmarks of Cancer 7.45
• Advances in Biomanufacturing 7.458[J]
• Building with Cells 7.46
• Human Physiology 7.20[J]
• Breakthroughs in Longevity and Rejuvenation 7.25
• Biological and Engineering Principles Underlying Novel Biotherapeutics 7.371[J]
• Advanced Undergraduate Seminar
• Biology Teaching 7.11
• Communication in Experimental Biology 7.19
• Ethics for Biologists and Engineers 7.105
• Ethics for Biologists and Engineers - Independent Inquiry 7.1051
• + 4 more courses

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 2026-07-01.