News: IMES announces faculty promotions

The MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) has announced the following faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2023:

• Tami Lieberman is being promoted to the rank of Associate Professor without Tenure, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. Tami received her BA in Biological Sciences from Northwestern University in 2009, and PhD in Systems Biology from Harvard University in 2014. Her lab studies the bacteria that colonize humans during health, and the mutations they acquire during residence in an individual person. The long term goal of this work is to enable precise manipulations of microbiomes in the clinic and the environment.
• Alex K. Shalek is being promoted from Associate Professor with Tenure to full Professor. He is now a Core Member of IMES, a Professor of Chemistry, and an Extramural Member of the Koch Institute. Alex received his BA in Chemical Physics from Columbia University in 2004, his AM in Chemical Physics from Harvard University in 2006, and his PhD in Chemical Physics from Harvard University in 2011. The interdisciplinary research in the Shalek Lab aims to create and implement new approaches to elucidate cellular and molecular features that inform tissue-level function and dysfunction across the spectrum of human health and disease. The goal of this principled, comprehensives approach is not only to provide valuable experimental and computational tools to advance many avenues of scientific inquiry, but also to help transform how the community studies and engineers human immune responses in tissues.