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Professor Edward Boyden
IMAXT
Associate Professor of Biological Engineering & Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT Media Lab & McGovern Institute; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
US
Meet Edward, a co-investigator on IMAXT
Ed Boyden is Professor of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the MIT Media Lab and the MIT McGovern Institute, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His group develops tools, such as optogenetics and expansion microscopy, for analysing and repairing complex biological systems such as the brain, and applies them systematically to understand and repair these systems. Amongst other recognitions, he has received the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences 2016, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2015 and the Grete Lundbeck Brain Prize 2013 for his work.
His role in the Grand Challenge is to develop optimized forms of expansion microscopy multiplexed analysis of cancer.