2025-26 Rising Star Lecture

2024-25
Jian Shu
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital,
Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, MIT
Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
“Decoding, Modeling, and Reprogramming Cells at Scale in the Era of Digital Biology”

2023-24
Ashleigh Theberge
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Adjunct Associate Professor of Urology, University of Washington
"Bioanalytical Systems for Translational Research: From Microscale Cell Culture Platforms to Biofluid Self-Sampling Tools"

2022-23
Polly Fordyce
Associate Professor of Bioengineering and of Genetics, Fellow of the ChEM-H Institute, Stanford University
"Microfluidics for High-Throughput and Quantitative Biophysics, Biochemistry, and Single-Cell Biology"

2021-22
Fei Chen
Core Member, Broad Institute, MIT
Assistant Professor, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
"Tissue genomics: genomic measurements in context"
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2020-21
Tim Downing
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine
PhD Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, 2013
"Synthetic Genome Regulation for Cell and Tissue Engineering"

2019-20
Krishanu Saha
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering & Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
"Towards nonviral, in vivo genome editing therapies: new tools and models to facilitate translation"

2017-18
Stanley Qi
Stanford University

2016-17
Kim Woodrow
University of Washington
"Engineering the mucosal microenvironment promotes targeting of particulate and cellular immunotherapies to lymphoid organs"