Associate Faculty

Associate Faculty members are faculty members at the Institute's Collaborating Institutions who carry out critical work at the Wyss Institute sites as key collaborators on specific Wyss-related projects.

Paolo Bonato serves as Director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, a member of the Affiliated Faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. More...

Elliot L. Chaikof is Chairman of the Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Dr. Chaikof has promoted alliances of clinicians, engineers, chemists, and biologists and in the process developed biologically-inspired materials, devices, and pharmacotherapeutics based upon the principles of molecular engineering and nanofabrication technologies. More...

Glenn Dranoff is a Professor of Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School. He has developed a basic and translational research program to elucidate the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the generation of anti-tumor immunity. Work in his laboratory has given rise to multiple clinical protocols that have defined the biologic activity of several cancer immunotherapies in patients with solid or hematologic malignancies. More...

Eugene Goldfield, (Assistant Professor in the Center for Behavioral Sciences at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School) has taken on a leadership role on the Programmable Second Skin project of the Institute's Anticipatory Medical and Cellular Devices Platform, which focuses on the development of an intelligent flexible orthotic that will potentially reprogram gait control in children with cerebral palsy. More...

Robert D. Howe is Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering and Area Dean for Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Dr. Howe founded the Harvard BioRobotics Laboratory in 1990, which investigates the roles of sensing and mechanical design and motor control, in both humans and robots. His research interests focus on manipulation, the sense of touch, and human-machine interfaces. Biomedical applications of this work include of robotic and image-guided surgery. More...

Ali Khademhosseini is an Associate Professor at Harvard-MIT's Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.  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.   More...

David Paydarfar studies oscillatory neural systems at the cellular, tissue and organismal levels, focusing on circuits involved in breathing, swallowing, and other autonomic functions. He seeks to understand mechanisms underlying disease states associated with abnormal behavior of oscillators, such as apnea, circadian dysrhythmias, and epilepsy, as well as the co-ordination of pacemakers with other physiological and behavioral functions. More...

David A. Weitz is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University, where he has appointment in both the Physics Department and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is Director of Harvard's NSF-funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, and co-Director of the BASF Advanced Research Initiative and the Kavli Institute of Bionano Science and Technology. His research efforts include soft matter physics, biophysics and biotechnology. More...

Wesley Wong is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School in the Departments of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology and Pediatrics and is an Investigator at the Immune Disease Institute at Children's Hospital Boston. Broadly, he is interested in understanding the physical basis behind how biological systems work at the nanoscale, with a focus on the role of mechanical force. More...