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Meet the Bathe BioNanolab
Principal investigator

Mark Bathe
Principal investigator
Professor, Department of Biological Engineering
Director, New Engineering Education Transformation
Member, Harvard Medical School Initiative for RNA Medicine
Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
Co-Chair, 2025 GRC on RNA Nanotechnology
Mark Bathe is a Professor in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT, Director of the MIT New Engineering Education Transformation, Member of the Harvard Medical School Initiative for RNA Medicine, and Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. He obtained his Doctoral Degree at MIT working in the Departments of Mechanical, Chemical, and Biological Engineering before moving to the University of Munich as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow to carry out his postdoctoral research in Biological Physics. He returned to MIT in 2009 to join the faculty in the Department of Biological Engineering, where he runs an interdisciplinary research group focused on engineering nucleic acids for application to vaccines, therapeutics, structural biology, and computing. He is academic co-founder of Cache DNA, Inc. and Kano Therapeutics, Inc., and in his free time he enjoys running, biking, swimming, and skiing amongst other outdoor activities.
Team
alumni
Mathew Allan
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Harvard Medical School
Matthew Adendorff
GMA Innovations
James Banal
Cache DNA, Inc.
Zachary Barry
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Etienne Boulais
MDA, Inc.
Philip Bransford
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
William Bricker
Assistant Professor
University of New Mexico
Eric Danielson
Yumanity Therapeutics
Arkajit Dey
Twitter, Inc.
Rebecca Du
TBD, Inc.
Floris Engelhardt
KanoTx, Inc.
Stavros Gaitanaros
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Simon Gordonov
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Syuan-Ming Guo
Insitro, Inc.
Jun He
Opera Solutions, Inc.
Torsten John
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Hyungmin Jun
Associate Professor
Jeonbuk University
Do-Nyun Kim
Associate Professor
Seoul National University
Aprotim Mazumder
Assistant Professor
TCIS, TIFR Hyderabad
Nilah Monnier
Assistant Professor
University of California Berkeley
Keyao Pan
Meta, Inc.
Molly Parsons
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Harvard Medical School
Elizabeth Perley
Google, Inc.
Pramod Pisharady
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Medical School
Sakul Ratanalert
Lecturer
Johns Hopkins University
Reza Sharifi Sedeh
Meta, Inc.
Matthew Stone
Auto-Owners Insurance
Martin Tomov
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Emory University
Rémi Veneziano
Assistant Professor
George Mason University
Dr. Eike-Christian Wamhoff
BioNTec, Inc.
Dr. Xiao Wang
Assistant Professor, Southeast University
Lun Yang
ExodusPoint Capital Management