Michael Levin

Michael Levin is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University, where he directs the Allen Discovery Center and the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. He is also an associate faculty member at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. He is best known for his research on developmental bioelectricity, basal cognition, and the collective intelligence of cells, as well as for co-discovering xenobots, synthetic living constructs made from frog cells.