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Professor (Eugene McDermott Professor in the Brain Sciences and Human Behavior), Massachusetts Institute of Technology 🔗
Status: unreviewed revisit date: None Application status: none LOR status: not_needed
Department(s)/lab(s): Biological Engineering | Jasanoff Lab @ MIT
Summary:

PREFERRED. Jasanoff's lab develops genetically encoded and nanoparticle/small-molecule MRI sensors (for calcium, dopamine, serotonin, and other neurochemical targets) that convert molecular binding events into brain-wide, noninvasive MRI contrast changes, effectively giving whole-brain 'molecular fMRI' with a growing palette of chemically distinct reporters; recent work includes liposomal nanoprobes actuated by engineered water channels for higher-sensitivity detection.

Created at: July 9, 2026, 8:03 p.m. Updated at: July 9, 2026, 8:03 p.m. Metadata: MIT McGovern/BE pages reviewed Jul 2026.