James Collins (Boston University)

James Collins (Boston University)

Rhodes Scholar,
MacArthur Fellow,
NIH Director's Pioneer Award,
Drexel Award,

Lagrange Prize

James J. Collins (June 26, 1965) is an American bioengineer, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator. He is one of the founders of the emerging field of synthetic biology, and a pioneering researcher in systems biology, having made fundamental discoveries regarding the actions of antibiotics and the emergence of antibiotic resistance.

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