Professor of Biological Engineering, MIT

Contact:

Email: bevin@mit.edu

Phone: (617) 258-0260

Biography:

Professor Engelward began her scientific career at Yale University working in the laboratory of Thomas Steitz. She did her doctoral studies in the laboratory of Dr. Leona Samson at the Harvard School of Public Health. In 1997 she joined the faculty at MIT and was one of the founding faculty in the creation of the Department of Biological Engineering.

Expertise:

Prof. Engelward’s work is public health-oriented and includes studies of the causes of DNA sequence rearrangements as well as the creation of novel technologies for detecting rare sequence changes in vivo and to measure genomic damage in vitro. The major objective of her work is to reveal the underlying mechanisms that drive genomic instability as a basis for contributing to improved global public health.

Disaster Research Experience and Interests:

Professor Engelward has participated in past DR2 exercises in Boston. She was involved in the creation of this website. 

Useful Technologies:

• Technologies for quantification of DNA damage and repair
  • CometChip, a high-throughput version of the comet assay that can be used to study DNA damage caused by chemical and environmetal agents. 
  • Mouse model that can be used to study homologous recombination. 

Other information:

Prof. Engelward is the Deputy Director of the MIT Center For Environmental Health Sciences and the Program Director for the MIT Superfund Research Program.