K. Dane Wittrup

Dr. K. Dane Wittrup is the C.P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biological Engineering at MIT. Dr. Wittrup was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012, elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011, and serves as a fellow of the American Institute of Biomedical Engineers. He is also co-founder and Scientific Advisory Board Chairman at Adimab.

Previously, Dr. Wittrup served as an Associate Director of MIT’s Koch Institute until 2017 and as the J. W. Westwater Professor of Chemical Engineering, Biophysics, and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to that, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate in Amgen’s Yeast Molecular Biology Group. He earned a Ph.D. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Mexico.