The 1st Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award
Core Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT
W.M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering, MIT
Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering, MIT
New York Stem Cell Foundation-Robertson Investigator
Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard
Core Faculty Member, Broad Inst of MIT and Harvard
Investigator, McGovern Institute
W.M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering, MI
1) Elucidation of genetic basis of neurological and psychiatric diseases
2) Development of novel therapeutic strategies that address the root cause and not just the symptoms of diseases
2011-present
2009-2010
2015 New York Stem Cell Foundation – Robertson Stem Cell Prize Recipient
2014 Young Investigator Award, Society for Neuroscience (for CRISPR-Cas9 and Optogenetics)
2014 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine (for CRISPR-Cas9, shared with Emmanuelle
Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna)
2014 Cell “40 under 40”
2014 International Society for Transgenic Technologies Young Investigator Award
2014 MIT Technology 10 Breakthrough Technologies
2014 Alan T. Waterman Award (for CRISPR-Cas9 and Optogenetics)
2013 Nature’s 10 People Who Mattered in 2013
2013 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Award
2013 Popular Science Brilliant 10 Award
2013 Vallee Foundation Young Investigator Award
2012 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award
2012 W. M. Keck Foundation Medical Research Award
2012 Klingenstein Fellowship, Searle Scholar Award
2012 Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize (for optogenetics)
2011 Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Technology Innovation Award
2011 McKnight Foundation Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award
2010 Nature Medicine/Roche Junior Award for Translational Neuroscience
2008 Larry M. Katz Memorial Lecture at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories for Best Graduate Thesis
2007 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (2007)
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A.B., Harvard College
Ph.D, Stanford University
2004
2009
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