Alex K. Shalek
Alex Shalek | |
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Alex Shalek, August 2019 | |
| Born | December 18, 1981 |
| Alma mater | Columbia University Harvard University |
| Awards | J. W. Kieckhefer Professorship (2023-current) Avant-Garde (DP1 Pioneer) Award from the National Institute for Drug Abuse (2021) Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award, MIT (2020) Pew Charitable Trust Pew-Stewart Scholar (2018) Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sloan Research Fellow (2018) Searle Scholars Program (2015) Beckman Young Investigators Award (2015) NIH Director's New Innovator Award (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Broad Institute Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Ragon Institute Mass General Hospital Harvard Medical School |
| Doctoral advisor | Hongkun Park |
| Website | www |
Alex K. Shalek, is an American biomedical engineer. He is the Director of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) and the J. W. Kieckhefer Professor in IMES and the Department of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is an Extramural Member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. Additionally, he is a Member of the Ragon Institute, an Institute Member of the Broad Institute, an Assistant in Immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Instructor in Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard Medical School. The multi-disciplinary research of the Shalek Lab aims to create and implement broadly-applicable methods to study and engineer cellular responses in tissues, to drive biological discovery and improve prognostics, diagnostics, and therapeutics for autoimmune, infectious, and cancerous diseases. Shalek and his lab are best known for their work in single-cell genomics and for studying a number of devastating, but difficult to study, human diseases with partners around the world.