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Ph.D., Director, Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, MIT
Biography
Alex K. Shalek is the Director of the Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (IMES) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the J. W. Kieckhefer Professor in IMES and the Department of Chemistry at MIT, as well as an Extramural Member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. He is also an Institute Member of the Broad Institute, a Member of the Ragon Institute, and an Instructor in Health Sciences & Technology at Harvard Medical School. The multi-disciplinary research in his laboratory aims to create and implement broadly-applicable methods to study and engineer cellular responses in tissues, to drive biological discovery and improve prognostics, diagnostics, and therapeutics for autoimmune, infectious, and cancerous diseases. Shalek and his lab are best known for their work in single-cell and spatial genomics, and for studying a number of devastating, but difficult to study, human diseases with partners around the world.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
Davos of Precision Medicine
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January 27–29, 2027 · Santa Clara Convention Center
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