Facts at a Glance

The McGovern Institute community is comprised of more than 600 faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and support staff. Our researchers are leaders in their respective fields and they are affiliated with more than a dozen different academic departments at MIT.

Here are some of our numbers.

1

Nobel Laureate
Breakthrough Prize Winner
National Medal of Science Awardee

More than half of McGovern faculty are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

22

Active McGovern faculty members

McGovern faculty affiliated with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Medicine (NAM), National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

34

Companies founded by McGovern faculty and trainees

MIT academic departments represented by McGovern faculty and graduate students

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35+

Languages spoken by our researchers

1,535

Approved patents worldwide

1,970

Hours of MRI brain scans performed on people every year at the McGovern Institute

18,897+

Citations of Feng Zhang’s seminal 2012 CRISPR-Cas9 Science paper

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1M+

Views and downloads of McGovern-authored papers from MIT's open-access library

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$35.5M

Annual grant expenditures in 2024