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Katie Galloway

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 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 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

Chemical Engineering / abeitz (at) mit.edu

Christopher Johnstone

Christopher Johnstone

Graduate Student

Chemical Engineering / cjohnsto (at) mit.edu

Nat Wang

Nat Wang

Graduate Student

Chemical Engineering / nbwang (at) mit.edu

Brittany Lende

Brittany Lende

Graduate Student

Chemical Engineering / blende (at) mit.edu

Sneha Kabaria

Sneha Kabaria

Graduate Student

Chemical Engineering / skabaria (at) mit.edu

Kasey Love

Kasey Love

Graduate Student

Biological Engineering / kslove (at) mit.edu

Emma Peterman

Emma Peterman

Graduate Student

Chemical Engineering / emmap (at) mit.edu

Mary Ehmann

Mary Ehmann

Graduate Student

Chemical Engineering / mee2 (at) mit.edu

Postdocs

Kei Takahashi

Kei Takahashi

Postdoc

keit (at) mit.edu

Deon Ploessl

Deon Ploessl

Postdoc

dploessl (at) mit.edu

Joji Teves

Joji Teves

Postdoc

jteves (at) mit.edu

Undergraduate Students

Yunbeen Bae

Yunbeen Bae

Undergraduate

Chemical Engineering

Josh Callaway

Josh Callaway

Undergraduate

Biological Engineering

Jane Atkinson

Jane Atkinson

Undergraduate

Chemical Engineering

Charis Ching

Charis Ching

HIP-SAT Student

Summer 2022, MIT, Class of 2027

Clara Robinson

Clara Robinson

HIP-SAT Student

Summer 2023

John Tan-Aristy

John Tan-Aristy

HIP-SAT Student

Summer 2023

Rachel Lee

Rachel Lee

Undergraduate

Chemical Engineering

Staff


Tseganesh Gudeta

Tseganesh Gudeta

Administrative Assistant

tgudeta (at) mit (dot) edu

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

Lizzie Chung

Lizzie Chung

Binette Wadda

Binette Wadda

Julia Van Cleef

Julia Van Cleef

Conrad Oakes

Conrad Oakes

Christian Otero

Christian Otero

Pragati Muthukumar

Pragati Muthukumar

Anna Mai

Anna Mai

Patrick Han

Patrick Han