Mikhail G Shapiro

Mikhail G Shapiro, Ph.D.

  • Positions:
    Miller Research Fellow

    Bioengineering

    Molecular and Cell Biology

    University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)

    http://www.mikhailshapiro.org

    personal website

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D., Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
     
    B.Sc., Neuroscience, Brown University (Providence, RI)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Francisco Bezanilla (as Post Doctoral Fellow)
     
    Robert S Langer (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    Alan P Jasanoff (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    Arto V Nurmikko (as Undergraduate Student)
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  • Research:
    Molecular engineering of technologies to sense and manipulate brain activity at the molecular level

    The brain is a complex system comprising billions of interconnected, specialized cells whose collective function gives rise to human consciousness, while malfunction leads to neurological and psychiatric disease. How this system works remains relatively unknown, and progress in elucidating its function and diagnosing and treating related diseases requires new technologies for precisely sensing and manipulating its activity. I believe creating such technologies is one of the most impactful things I can do as a biological engineer, and that transformative breakthroughs in this area will have major implications for both science and medicine.

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  • Other Experience:

    2011-present Member, National Academy of Sciences Standing Committee on Technology Insight (TIGER)

    2011 Visiting Fellow, University of Chicago

    2008-2011 Venture Principal, Third Rock Ventures (Focus: Neuroscience, Molecular Diagnostics)

    2009-2010 Member, Harvard/MIT Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology, Technology Advisory Group

    2001-2003 Co-founder, Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems (brain-computer interfaces)

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  • Honors:

    2011-present Miller Research Fellowship (U.C. Berkeley)

    2011 Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship (declined)

    2010 TR35 - Technology Review's list of "the world's top 35 innovators under 35"

    2009 Hertz Foundation PhD Thesis Prize

    2004-2008 Fannie and John Hertz Fellowship

    2004-2008 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship

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Mikhail Shapiro's Publications (4)



Mikhail Shapiro's Posters and Presentations (5)

  • Infrared light excites cells via transient changes in membrane electrical capacitance. (presentation)

    MG Shapiro, K Homma, S Villarreal, CP Richter, F Bezanilla

    SPIE Photonics West, Session on Neurons and Photons; 01/2012
  • Engineering molecular technologies to sense neural activity non-invasively. (presentation)

    Mikhail G Shapiro

    Biomedical Engineering Society, Annual Conference.; 10/2011
  • Development of a Genetically Encoded Molecular Sensor for Non-Invasive Imaging of Dopamine Using MRI. (presentation)

    Shapiro MG, Romero PA, Szablowski JO, Langer R, Arnold FH, Jasanoff A.

    Society for Molecular Imaging, Annual Meeting (travel award); 09/2007
  • Directed Evolution of Genetically Encoded MRI Contrast Agents for Dynamic Molecular Imaging. (poster)

    Shapiro MG, Romero PA, Szablowski JO, Otey CR, Langer R, Arnold FH, Jasanoff A.

    Society for Molecular Imaging, Annual Meeting; 09/2006
  • Imaging of neurons with semiconductor quantum dots. (poster)

    Shapiro MG, Urabe H, Venkataramani S, Ozden I, Tsomaia N, Mierke D, Connors B, Nurmikko A.

    Society for Neuroscience, Annual Meeting; 11/2003

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