Regina Barzilay

BoltzGen generates protein binders for any biological target from scratch, expanding AI’s reach from understanding biology toward engineering it.

MIT CSAIL and McMaster researchers used a generative AI model to reveal how a narrow-spectrum antibiotic attacks disease-causing bacteria, speeding up a process that normally takes years.

Whitehead Institute and CSAIL researchers created a machine-learning model to predict and generate protein localization, with implications for understanding and remedying disease.

Five MIT faculty and staff, along with five alumni, are honored for electrical engineering and computer science advances.

With models like AlphaFold3 limited to academic research, the team built an equivalent alternative, to encourage innovation more broadly.