Prof. Mark Bathe

Prof. Mark Bathe

Professor, MIT Biological Engineering
Admin. Assistant Contact
Roberta Steele
nsteele@mit.edu
Roles and Accreditations
Professor of Biological Engineering
Director, MIT New Engineering Education Transformation
Member, Harvard Medical School Initiative for RNA Medicine
Associate Member, Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Professor 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 an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard.

Professor Bathe obtained his Doctoral Degree from MIT working in the Departments of Mechanical, Chemical, and Biological Engineering before moving to the University of Munich to carry out his postdoctoral research.

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 the targeted delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids and vaccines, phenotypic profiling of neuronal circuits involved in psychiatric disease, and engineering nucleic acid materials for highly parallel molecular computing and massive data storage.