Narendra Maheshri's Biography

Narendra Maheshri, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Narendra Maheshri is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has bachelor’s degrees in both Chemical Engineering and Biology from MIT, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley, where he focused on engineering viral vectors for gene therapy. In post-doctoral studies he became interested in systems biology and gene regulation. His current research interests combine experiments and modeling to better understand and engineer the dynamics of eukaryotic gene regulation and simple regulatory networks. His group also explores methods to translate these fundamental studies into tools for rapidly creating phenotypic diversity.