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K. Dane Wittrup is the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012 and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011). Wittrup has served as the Associate Director of MIT’s Koch Institute since 2017 and has previously held the position of J. W. Westwater Professor of Chemical Engineering, Biophysics, and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on developing protein engineering technologies to improve cancer biopharmaceuticals and immunotherapies. Wittrup's laboratory is dedicated to designing tools and biological processes at the molecular level, with a primary therapeutic interest in proteins involved in cell biochemical processes. His work emphasizes manipulating protein binding events to develop novel biopharmaceuticals and anti-cancer drugs, as well as conducting quantitative studies on cellular pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Furthermore, he is particularly interested in cancer immunotherapy and how to provoke therapeutic immune responses against tumors.