James Collins (bioengineer)
| Jim Collins | |
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| Born |
June 26, 1965 New York City, New York, US |
| Residence |
 US,  UK (1987-90) |
| Citizenship |
United States
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| Fields | Biomedical Engineering |
| Institutions |
MIT Harvard University Boston University |
| Alma mater |
University of Oxford (Ph.D.) Holy Cross (BA) |
| Notable awards |
NAS, NAE, IOM, NAI, |
NAS, NAE, IOM, NAI,
Rhodes Scholar,
MacArthur Fellow,
NIH Director's Pioneer Award,
Drexel Award,
James J. Collins (born June 26, 1965) is an American bioengineer, and the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering & Science and Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT. He is one of the founders of the emerging field of synthetic biology, and a pioneering researcher in systems biology, having made fundamental discoveries regarding the actions of antibiotics and the emergence of antibiotic resistance.
Collins received a bachelor's degree in Physics (summa cum laude; class valedictorian) from the College of the Holy Cross in 1987 and a doctorate in Medical Engineering from the University of Oxford in 1990. From 1987 to 1990, he was a Rhodes Scholar. Currently, Collins is the Henri Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering & Science and Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT. Collins is also a core founding faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, an Institute Member of the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School.
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