J. Christopher Love is the Raymond A. (1921) and Helen E. St. Laurent Professor of Chemical Engineering and member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. In addition, Chris is an associate member at the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute, and at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. Dr. Love received his Ph.D. in 2004 in physical chemistry at Harvard University. He served as a Distinguished Engineer in Residence at Biogen in 2015. Dr. Love is the founding director of the Alternative Host Research Consortium at MIT, faculty advisor for the MIT Venture Mentoring Service (VMS), Faculty Co-Director of the MIT Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM), and Engineering Co-Director of the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO). He has co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed papers and is an inventor on multiple issued patents. Dr. Love has co-founded five companies for biopharmaceutical services and technologies, including Honeycomb Bio, OneCyte Bio, Sunflower Therapeutics, and Amplifyer Bio.
