Angela Belcher
Angela M. Belcher | |
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| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | University of California, Santa Barbara (B.S. 1991, Ph.D. 1997) |
| Known for | Viral assembly of nanotechnology |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellowship (2004) Beckman Young Investigators Award (2000) National Medal of Science (2024) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biological engineering materials science |
| Institutions | MIT |
| Thesis | Spatial and temporal resolution of interfaces, phase transitions and isolation of three families of proteins in calcium carbonate based biocomposite materials (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Galen D. Stucky |
Angela M. Belcher is a materials scientist, biological engineer, and the James Mason Crafts Professor of Biological Engineering and Materials Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. She is director of the Biomolecular Materials Group at MIT, a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and a 2004 MacArthur Fellow. In 2019, she was named head of the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.