People

Katie Galloway

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 Charles and Hilda Roddey Career Development Professor in Chemical Engineering at MIT. She studied Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley and obtained her PhD from Caltech. PhD in Chemical Engineering at Caltech, and did her postdoc at USC Stem Cell before starting at MIT in the summer of 2019. As a chemical engineer working in molecular systems biology, 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. Her research has been featured in Science, Cell Stem Cell, Cell Systems, and Development. She has won multiple fellowships and awards including the NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) R35, the NIH F32, and Caltech’s Everhart Award.

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Graduate Students

Adam Beitz

Adam Beitz

Graduate Student

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Christopher Johnstone

Christopher Johnstone

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Nathan Wang

Nathan Wang

Graduate Student

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Brittany Lende

Brittany Lende

Graduate Student

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Sneha Kabaria

Graduate Student

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Kasey Love

Kasey Love

Graduate Student

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Emma Peterman

Emma Peterman

Graduate Student

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Postdocs

Kei Takahashi

Kei Takahashi

Postdoc

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Patrick Han

Patrick Han

Postdoc

Undergraduate Students

Conrad Oakes

Conrad Oakes

Undergraduate

Biological Engineering

Binette Wadda

Binette Wadda

Undergraduate

Chemical Engineering

Pragati Muthukumar

Pragati Muthukumar

Undergraduate

Chemical Engineering

Lizzie Chung

Lizzie Chung

Undergraduate

Biology

Julia Van Cleef

Julia Van Cleef

Undergraduate

Chemical Engineering

Christian Otero

Undergraduate

Chemical Engineering

Anna Mai

Anna Mai

Undergraduate

Chemical Engineering

Yunbeen Bae

Yunbeen Bae

Undergraduate

Chemical Engineering

Staff

Tseganesh Gudeta

Tseganesh Gudeta

Administrative Assistant

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Alumni

Siddharth Sharma

Siddharth Sharma

Mirna Kheir Gouda

Mirna Kheir Gouda

Fernando Juarez

Fernando Juarez

Josh Wilkerson

Josh Wilkerson

Antonio Diaz

Antonio Diaz

Freya Edholm

Freya Edholm