James J. Collins

James J. (Jim) Collins is the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science in the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and the department of biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also affiliated with Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. He is a renowned expert in synthetic biology and systems biology and their applications in biotechnology and medicine. He has received numerous awards, including a Rhodes Scholarship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award. Jim is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a charter fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.