J. Christopher Love is the Raymond A. (1921) and Helen E. St. Laurent Professor of Chemical Engineering and member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. In addition, Chris is an associate member at the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute, and at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. Dr. Love received his Ph.D. in 2004 in physical chemistry at Harvard University. He extended his research into immunology at Harvard Medical School from 2004-2005, and at the Immune Disease Institute from 2005-2007. His research centers on using simple microsystems to monitor cells from clinical samples in chronic human diseases, and on developing new approaches to manufacturing biologic drugs and vaccines efficiently and affordably. Dr. Love was named a Dana Scholar for Human Immunology, a Keck Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research in 2009, one of Popular Science’s Brilliant 10 in 2010, and a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. He served as a Distinguished Engineer in Residence at Biogen in 2015. Dr. Love is the founding director of the Alternative Host Research Consortium at MIT and current faculty advisor of the MIT Venture Mentoring Service (VMS). He has co-authored more than 140 peer-reviewed papers and is an inventor on multiple issued patents. Dr. Love has co-founded four companies for biopharmaceutical services and technologies, including Honeycomb Bio, OneCyte Bio, and Sunflower Therapeutics.