Ed Boyden

MIT

Ed Boyden, Ph.D., is Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology at MIT, an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the MIT McGovern Institute and Yang Tan Collective, and professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Media Arts and Sciences, and Biological Engineering at MIT. Boyden leads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group, which develops ground truth-oriented tools for analyzing and repairing the brain and applies them systematically to reveal fundamental mechanisms underlying brain functions, as well as to repair the brain. He codirects the MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering, which aims to develop new tools to accelerate neuroscience progress, and the K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics, which pioneers transformational bionic interventions across a broad range of conditions affecting the body and mind. Among other recognitions, he has received the Croonian Medal (2019), the Canada Gairdner International Award (2018), the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2016), and the Grete Lundbeck Brain Prize (2013). He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (2019) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017).