Arup K. Chakraborty

Arup K. Chakraborty is the Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, Physics, and Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT). He was the founding director of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science.

With a background in chemical engineering, Arup's focus is on the intersection between immunology, physics and engineering. His work aims to help develop better vaccines and therapies by examining how the immune system works to combat pathogens. He is particularly interested in the human immune response to highly mutable pathogens such as HIV and influenza. Working with collaborators, his interdisciplinary lab at MIT brings together computational studies rooted in statistical physics with clinical and experimental investigation.

He is a member of all three branches of the US National Academies : the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine.