Leona Samson

Leona Samson is a professor of biological engineering at MIT, the director of MIT’s Center for Environmental Health Sciences and an associate member at the Broad Institute. Her research focuses on how cells, tissues, and animals respond to environmental toxicants. To understand these responses, her laboratory uses a diverse set of approaches, including x-ray crystallography, biochemistry, microbial genetics, mammalian cell genetics, gene therapy, knockout and transgenic mouse technologies, genomics, and human population-based studies.

Learn more about research in the Samson laboratory here.