Eric Alm, Ph.D.

Alm is a professor of biological engineering at MIT, an institute member of the Broad Institute and co-director of the MIT Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics. Work in his laboratory employs genomics to improve healthcare and public health. Much of his recent work relates to the human microbiome. Both commercial and non-profit organizations have spun out of his research group in the fields of therapeutics, wastewater epidemiology and global health.