Richard Braatz, Ph.D.

Dr. Richard D. Braatz is the Edwin R. Gilliland Professor of Chemical Engineering, the Director of the Center for Continuous mRNA Manufacturing, and the Faculty Director of the Center for Biomedical Innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and spent a year as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University before joining the faculty at MIT. His research is primarily in the development of advanced biomanufacturing for vaccines and gene and nucleic acid therapeutics. He is a Fellow of multiple professional societies and was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2019.