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James Collins, PhD

Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, United States

James Collins is the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering & Science and Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT, as well as a Member of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology Faculty. He is also a Core Founding Faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, and an Institute Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He is one of the founders of the field of synthetic biology, and his research group is currently focused on using synthetic biology to create next-generation diagnostics and therapeutics. He has received numerous awards and honors, including a Rhodes Scholarship and a MacArthur "Genius" Award, and he is an elected member of all three national academies - the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine.

Enbiotix (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Advisor or Review Panel member, Shareholder; Sherlock Biosciences (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Board Member, Shareholder

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