B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2005
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2012
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Southern California

Katie Galloway is the W. M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research focuses on elucidating the fundamental principles of integrating synthetic circuitry to drive cellular behaviors. Her lab focuses on developing integrated gene circuits and elucidating the systems-level principles that govern complex cellular behaviors. Her team leverages synthetic biology to transform how we understand cellular transitions and engineer cellular therapies. Galloway earned a PhD and an MS in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and a BS in Chemical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley. She completed her postdoctoral work at the University of Southern California. Her research has been featured in Science, Cell Stem Cell, Cell Systems, and Development. She has won multiple fellowships and awards including the Pershing Square MIND Prize 2025, the NSF CAREER 2024, C. Michael Mohr Outstanding Faculty Award for Undergraduate Teaching 2024, BMES Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Rising Star Award 2023, the NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) R35, the NIH F32, and Caltech’s Everhart Award.

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