What happens if you can switch human genes off and on? Professor Jim Collins (BME) has developed the world’s first genetic toggle switch to find out.

Collins has received many research and teaching accolades throughout his career, including the 2003 MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Award" in 2003. A BU faculty member since 1990, he was named Outstanding Professor of the Year by the College of Engineering class of 2008, named one of Technology Review's 100 young innovators who will shape the future in 1999, received an National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award in 2007, and was the first BU faculty member to be selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in 2008.

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