Ali Khademhosseini
Ali Khademhosseini, MASc, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Harvard-MIT’s Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, as well as an Associate Faculty at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired engineering. He also directs a satellite laboratory at the World Premier International-Advanced Institute for Materials Research at Tohoku University, Japan. At the Wyss Institute, his laboratory is developing bioinspired approaches for generating tissue-like structures as well as fabricating combinatorial biomaterials for regenerative medicine applications.
Dr. Khademhosseini has received numerous awards from various societies including AIChE, TERMIS-NA, NSF, BMES, ONR, SFB, ASME, SLAS, IEEE-EMBS, Sloan Foundation, Harrington Foundation, Coulter Foundation and ACS. He has also been named by the Technology Review Magazine as one of the “Top Young Innovators” (TR35) and received the BMW Group Scientific award. He received his Ph.D. in bioengineering from MIT (2005), and MASc (2001) and BASc (1999) degrees from University of Toronto both in chemical engineering.