Edward 'Ed' Boyden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Associate Professor
Biological Engineering
Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Cambridge, Massachusetts
esb@media.mit.edu
Office:
(617) 324-3085
Bio/Research
Ed Boyden is Associate Professor of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, at the MIT Media Lab and the MIT McGovern Institute. He leads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group, which develops tools for analyzing and engineering the circuits of the brain, and uses these neurotechnologi...
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Bio/Research
Ed Boyden is Associate Professor of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, at the MIT Media Lab and the MIT McGovern Institute. He leads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group, which develops tools for analyzing and engineering the circuits of the brain, and uses these neurotechnologies to understand how cognition and emotion arise from brain network operation, as well as to enable systematic repair of intractable brain disorders such as epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, and chronic pain.
He was named to the "Top 35 Innovators Under the Age of 35" by Technology Review, the "Top 20 Brains Under Age 40" by Discover Magazine, and has received the NIH Director's New Innovator Award, the Society for Neuroscience Research Award for Innovation in Neuroscience, the NSF CAREER Award, the Paul Allen Distinguished Investigator Award, the New York Stem Cell Foundation-Robertson Investigator Award, the Perl/UNC prize, the IET Harvey Prize, and other recognitions, including having his work featured in 2010 as the "Method of the Year" by the journal Nature Methods, and he has delivered lectures on optogenetics at TED and at the World Economic Forum.
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He was named to the "Top 35 Innovators Under the Age of 35" by Technology Review, the "Top 20 Brains Under Age 40" by Discover Magazine, and has received the NIH Director's New Innovator Award, the Society for Neuroscience Research Award for Innovation in Neuroscience, the NSF CAREER Award, the Paul Allen Distinguished Investigator Award, the New York Stem Cell Foundation-Robertson Investigator Award, the Perl/UNC prize, the IET Harvey Prize, and other recognitions, including having his work featured in 2010 as the "Method of the Year" by the journal Nature Methods, and he has delivered lectures on optogenetics at TED and at the World Economic Forum.
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