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
Graduate StudentChemical Engineering / abeitz (at) mit.edu

Christopher Johnstone
Graduate StudentChemical Engineering / cjohnsto (at) mit.edu

Brittany Lende
Graduate StudentChemical Engineering / blende (at) mit.edu

Sneha Kabaria
Graduate StudentChemical Engineering / skabaria (at) mit.edu

Kasey Love
Graduate StudentBiological Engineering / kslove (at) mit.edu

Emma Peterman
Graduate StudentChemical Engineering / emmap (at) mit.edu

Mary Ehmann
Graduate StudentChemical Engineering / mee2 (at) mit.edu
Postdocs

Kei Takahashi
Postdockeit (at) mit.edu

Deon Ploessl
Postdocdploessl (at) mit.edu

Joji Teves
Postdocjteves (at) mit.edu
Undergraduate Students

Yunbeen Bae
UndergraduateChemical Engineering

Josh Callaway
UndergraduateBiological Engineering

Jane Atkinson
UndergraduateChemical Engineering

Charis Ching
HIP-SAT StudentSummer 2022, MIT, Class of 2027

Clara Robinson
HIP-SAT StudentSummer 2023

John Tan-Aristy
HIP-SAT StudentSummer 2023

Rachel Lee
UndergraduateChemical Engineering
Staff
Alumni

Siddharth Sharma

Mirna Kheir Gouda

Fernando Juarez

Josh Wilkerson

Antonio Diaz

Freya Edholm

Lizzie Chung

Binette Wadda

Julia Van Cleef

Conrad Oakes

Christian Otero

Pragati Muthukumar

Anna Mai
