Shiladitya DasSarma
Founder and President, MIT Alumni for Climate Action
After his PhD from MIT with Nobel laureate HG Khorana and postdoc at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Dr. DasSarma served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University System of Maryland. He is currently a Professor in the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he has developed an interprofessional course on Climate Change, Health, and Society. His research in the University System of Maryland's Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology concerns the impacts of climate change on medicine and society, life in extreme environments, and the mechanisms of cell survival after environmental stress. He is Founder and President of the MIT Alumni for Climate Action (see: https://maca.earth) and was awarded the Margaret MacVicar Award for his leadership on climate action by MIT and named Sustainability Champion for his environmental commitment by UMB.