Dr. Miguel Jimenez

Biography

Miguel Jimenez has expertise in integrating engineered microorganisms with mechanical and electronic devices. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from Harvard University, where he developed vinyl siloxane metathesis methodology under the supervision of Damian Young and Stuart Schreiber. Jimenez earned his PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University, focusing on synthetic biology-based microbial diagnostics in Virginia Cornish's lab and was recognized as a National Science Foundation Fellow. His postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supervised by Robert Langer, involved developing formulations for microbial therapeutics and microbial-electronic monitoring devices, earning him a Fellow position at the Translational Research Institute for Space Health. He has served as a Research Scientist at MIT, leading a large DARPA program to develop ingestible bacterial-electronic devices for treating food-borne illnesses and has conducted first-in-human trials. Jimenez leads the El Microbial Integration Group at Boston University, which focuses on developing miniature portable devices for biomolecule detection and production through genetically engineered microorganisms.

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