NAE Honors KI's Associate Director
K. Dane Wittrup was one of five MIT engineers elected to the National Academy of Engineering. The election is one of highest professional honors awarded to an engineer. more...
The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
Science + Engineering... Conquering Cancer Together
K. Dane Wittrup was one of five MIT engineers elected to the National Academy of Engineering. The election is one of highest professional honors awarded to an engineer. more...
In nature, evolution takes place over eons. But evolution can also happen on a small and fast scale in the laboratory. The approach is called "directed evolution," and scientists are using it to generate proteins that do not occur in nature – for example, cancer drugs, new microbial enzymes for converting agricultural waste to fuel, or imaging agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). more...
K. Dane Wittrup, Associate Director, Koch institute, and Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering watch...
Researchers have found that antibodies do not need a particular sugar attachment long believed to be essential to their function, a discovery that could make producing therapeutic antibodies much easier and cheaper in the future. more...
KI researchers describe potent immuno-suppressive activity of prostate cancer microenvironment. more...
