Faculty FacultyDouglas A. LauffenburgerFord Professor of Engineering; Professor of Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biology phone617.252.1629emaillauffen@mit.eduroom16-343 Support StaffGerri Powers Research Interests cell, tissue, and biomolecular engineering, computational modeling of biological and physiological systems Education Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1979 B.S., University of Illinois, 1975 Publications Honors and Awards National Academy of Engineering, 2001 American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2001 Amgen Award in Biochemical Engineering, Eng Fdn, 2000 Food Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division Award, AIChE, 1993 Curtis W. McGraw Research Award, ASEE, 1992 Founding Fellow, AIMBE, 1992 J.S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1989 Allan P. Colburn Award, AIChE, 1988 Career Development Award, NIH, 1984 Presidential Young Investigator Award, NSF, 1984