Broadening Participation
Our outreach programs seek to make the field of science more inclusive by sharing MIT’s intellectual wealth and cutting-edge resources.
Graduate Students
Graduate training is interdisciplinary, collaborative, and intense, giving our students the research and communication skills they need for a successful career. Our faculty share a deep commitment to education for all students.
BioGenesis Podcast
MIT Biology and Whitehead Institute have launched season 2 of “BioGenesis,” a new podcast highlighting graduate students and their origin stories.
The protein TRAF6, decomposed into its reoccurring structural patterns. Credit: Protein Data Bank and Keating lab.
Research
For over 50 years, we have played a central role in the growth of molecular life sciences and the revolution in molecular and cellular biology, genetics, genomics, and computational biology.
A cell as it divides. Credit: Kristin Knouse PhD ’17, Amon lab.
Research
For over 50 years, we have played a central role in the growth of molecular life sciences and the revolution in molecular and cellular biology, genetics, genomics, and computational biology.
Learn, Discover, Innovate
We are a collaborative, inclusive, diverse, supportive, and focused community dedicated to research, teaching, and service. We explore a wide range of fundamental biological questions with a focus on molecular cell biology at all levels, from molecular structure to human disease. Join us.
Undergraduate Students
Our undergraduate students thrive in an atmosphere that promotes exploration and collaboration across all areas of research and study. Our professors have an infectious passion for instruction and strive to teach each course better than it’s ever been taught before.
Monty Krieger
Monty Krieger studies cell surface receptors and cholesterol and their impact on normal physiology and diseases, such as heart disease and infertility.
