Ali Khademhosseini is an Associate Professor at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School as well as an Associate Faculty at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and a Junior PI at Japan’s World Premier International-Advanced Institute for Materials Research at Tohoku University where he directs a satellite laboratory. He has authored more than 300 papers and 50 book chapters.   He has engineered a range of hydrogels for tissue engineering and utilized various micro- and nanoengineering approaches to further modify the hydrogel properties / architecture.

Dr. Khademhosseini’s interdisciplinary research has been recognized by over 30 major national and international awards.  He has received early career awards from three major engineering discipline societies: electrical (IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society award and IEEE Nanotechnology award), chemical (Colburn award from the AIChE) and mechanical engineering (Y.C. Fung award from the ASME).  He is also a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honour given by the US government for early career investigators. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).   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.