A campuswide collaboration
The Aging Brain Initiative is an MIT campuswide call to action to solve the mysteries of the aging brain and improve treatment and care options for neurodegenerative disorders. This powerful collaborative effort draws expertise from across MIT—neuroscientists, biologists, computer scientists, economists, and engineers—all working together to bring their insights into this approach to exploring the breakdown in the brain as it ages. Below is a list of founding and affiliated faculty.
Above: Emery N. Brown, Li-Huei Tsai and Ed Boyden: three of the ABI founding faculty members.
Mark Bear, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute
Ed Boyden*, Department of Biological Engineering, McGovern Institute
Emery N. Brown*, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute, IMES
Gloria Choi, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute
Kwanghun Chung, Department of Chemical Engineering, Picower Institute, IMES
Joseph Coughlin, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Randall Davis, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
Peter Dedon, Department of Biological Engineering
Linlin Fan, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute
Steven Flavell, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute
Ernest Fraenkel, Department of Biological Engineering
John Gabrieli, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, McGovern Institute, IMES
Ann Graybiel, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, McGovern Institute
Leonard Guarente*, Department of Biology
Myriam Heiman, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Instiute, Broad Institute
Thomas Heldt, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, IMES
Robert Horvitz*, Department of Biology, McGovern Institute
Rudolf Jaenisch, Department of Biology, Whitehead Institute
Alan Jasanoff, Department of Biological Engineering, McGovern Institute
Manolis Kellis*, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Broad Institute
Laura Kiessling, Department of Chemistry
Ankur Jain, Department of Biology, Whitehead Institute
Robert Langer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Biological Engineering, Koch Institute ,
Troy Littleton, Department of Biology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute
Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan School of Management, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
Pattie Maes, MIT Media Lab
Earl Miller, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute
Elly Nedivi, Department of Biology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute
Sara Prescott, Department of Biology, The Picower Institute
Ritu Raman, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Michael Sipser*, Department of Mathematics, Dean of the School of Science
Jean-Jacques Slotine, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Mriganka Sur, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute
Steven Tannenbaum, Department of Biological Engineering, Department of Chemistry
Susumu Tonegawa*, Department of Biology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics, Picower Institute
Giovanni Traverso, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Li-Huei Tsai*, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute, Alana Down Syndrome Center,
Brady Weissbourd, Department of Biology, The Picower Institute
Matthew Wilson, Department of Biology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute, Center for Brains Minds and Machines
Bin Zhang, Department of Chemistry
*denotes founding faculty member