Professor Gregory Stephanopoulos
Professor Gregory Stephanopoulos is the Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also the Taplin Professor of Health Sciences and Technology (2001-), Instructor of Bioengineering at Harvard Medical School (1997-), Member of the International Faculty of the Technical University of Denmark (2001-), and Director of the MEBCS program of the Singapore-MIT Alliance (2000-).
Professor Stephanopoulos' current research focuses on metabolic engineering and its applications to the production of biochemicals and speciality chemicals; the rigorous evaluation of cell physiology using advanced isotopic methods; the metabolism and physiology of mammalian cells with emphasis on obesity and diabetes; and bioinformatics and functional genomics, whereby new genomics-based technologies are applied to the elucidation of cell physiology and metabolic engineering.
In 2003, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and recently was awarded an honorary doctorate degree (doctor technices honoris causa) by the Technical University of Denmark (2005).