National Cancer Institute Research Programs

As a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated center of excellence for over four decades, MIT has been at the center of the nation's efforts to conquer cancer. Its current and former faculty include five Nobel Prize winners, and the wealth of fundamental discoveries that emerged under the aegis of Koch Institute-predecessor, the MIT Center for Cancer Research, have helped shape the face of today's rapid progress. Applying our great strengths in science and technology, and working closely with our clinical collaborators, we remain committed to unraveling the complexities of this disease and bringing new discoveries to patients.

Program 1: Molecular Genetics and Immunology

Program Co-Leaders: Phillip A. Sharp, K. Dane Wittrup
Members: Michael Birnbaum, Laurie Boyer, Christopher Burge, Jianzhu Chen, David Housman, Darrell J. Irvine, Rudolf Jaenisch, Eric Lander, Harvey F. Lodish, J. Christopher Love, David Page, Hidde Ploegh, Aviv Regev, Ron Weiss, Richard Young
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Program 2: Cancer Biology

Program Co-Leaders: Angelika Amon, Tyler Jacks
Members: Stephen P. Bell, Leonard P. Guarente, H. Robert Horvitz, Jacqueline A. Lees, Susan Lindquist, Terry Orr-­Weaver, David Sabatini, Matthew Vander Heiden, Ömer Yilmaz
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Program 3: Cell and Systems Biology

Program Co-Leaders: Richard O. Hynes, Michael B. Yaffe
Members: Frank B. Gertler, Piyush Gupta, Michael T. Hemann, Angela Koehler, Douglas A. Lauffenburger, Stephen J. Lippard, Leona D. Samson, Graham Walker, Robert A. Weinberg, Forest M. White
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Program 4: Engineering Science and Technology

Program Co-Leaders: Robert S. Langer, Scott Manalis
Members: Daniel Anderson, Angela Belcher, Sangeeta Bhatia, Michael Cima, Patrick S. Doyle, Elazer Edelman, Linda G. Griffith, Paula T. Hammond, Timothy K. Lu, Ram Sasisekharan, Alice Ting
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