Deploying therapeutic payloads to cells
The founding mission of MIT may seem like an unusual meal-time story for a child. But when Mark Bathe was growing up, it was a regular topic of conversation around the dinner table. That is because Bathe’s father, mechanical engineer Klaus-Jürgen Bathe, was a long-standing, proud MIT faculty member, and regularly talked about MIT founder William Barton Rogers’ mission for the Institute. Bathe’s father was a huge presence in his childhood, and his enthusiastic descriptions of MIT’s focus on fundamental yet hands-on science to benefit society made quite an impression on him. “My father was the lens through which I saw the world,” Bathe says. So when Bathe was admitted to both MIT and another university as a senior in high school, there was little doubt in his mind as to where he would be enrolling. Bathe joined MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering as an undergraduate, where he considers himself fortunate to have been...