Professor Bathe obtained his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral Degrees from MIT working in the Departments of Mechanical, Chemical, and Biological Engineering before moving to the University of Munich to carry out his postdoctoral research. He returned to MIT in 2009 to join the faculty in the Department of Biological Engineering, where he runs an interdisciplinary research group focused on the targeted delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids and vaccines, phenotypic profiling of neuronal circuits involved in psychiatric disease, and engineering nucleic acid materials for highly parallel molecular computing and massive data storage. Professor Bathe is Co-Director of the MIT New Engineering Education Transformation, an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, and a Member of the HMS Initiative for RNA Medicine.