Faculty & Leadership

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  Associate Faculty
  Joanna Aizenberg, Ph.D.
  Joanna is a pioneer in the rapidly developing field of bio-inspired materials science and engineering — a branch of science that uses biological principles as guides in developing advanced, adaptive materials and devices. Her work focuses on understanding the unique architectural principles found in nature that enable living organisms to assemble themselves into structures with...
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  Associate Faculty
  Natalie Artzi, Ph.D.
  Natalie Artzi is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is a Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT, is an Associate Faculty of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and is an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Leveraging material science,...
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  Associate Faculty
  Sangeeta Bhatia, M.D., Ph.D.
  Sangeeta is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (IMES) and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS). She is also the Director of the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine and a member of the Ludwig Center for Molecular Oncology –...
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  Associate Faculty
  Paolo Bonato, Ph.D.
  Paolo serves as Director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston MA. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, and an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, Harvard Medical School. He has held Adjunct Faculty positions at...
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  Associate Faculty
  Elliot L. Chaikof, M.D., Ph.D.
  Elliot 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. These endeavors...
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  Christopher Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
  Chris is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University, director of the Tissue Microfabrication Laboratory, and founding director of the Biological Design Center at Boston University. He has been an instrumental figure in the development of engineered cellular microenvironments to understand and control how cells build tissues. The goal of Dr. Chen’s research...
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  Associate Faculty
  Georg Duda, Ph.D.
  Georg is Vice-Director of the Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT) and the Director of the Julius Wolff Institute for Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Regeneration at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin in Germany. He is interested in the tension between the fields of biology and mechanics. He is involved in investigating the interaction between bone and muscles...
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  Associate Faculty
  Simon P. Hoerstrup, M.D., Ph.D.
  Simon is a physician and leader in the field tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. He is Chair and Director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Co-Director of the recently founded Wyss Translational Center Zurich in Switzerland. Hoerstrup is also Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Technical University Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Associate Member of...
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  Associate Faculty
  Michael Levin, Ph.D.
  Michael Levin, a Distinguished Professor in the Biology department at Tufts, holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair and serves as director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. Recent honors include the Scientist of Vision award and the Distinguished Scholar Award. His group’s focus is on understanding...
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  Associate Faculty
  Kevin Kit Parker, Ph.D.
  Kit Parker researches cardiac cell biology and tissue engineering, traumatic brain injury, and biological applications of micro- and nanotechnologies. Working in both Biomimetic Microsystems and Programmable Nanomaterials, he is involved in projects ranging from developing nanofabrics for applications in tissue regeneration to creating organs-on-chips to address pediatric diseases such as asthma, muscular dystrophy, diabetes, brain...
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  Associate Faculty
  Conor Walsh, Ph.D.
  Conor Walsh is the Paul A. Maeder Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the John A. Paulson Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, an Associate Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy & Athletic Training at Boston University. He...
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  Associate Faculty
  Shaw Warren, M.D.
  Shaw is an infectious disease specialist who focuses on host response to infection and inflammation. Warren is the director of the program SPIRIT (Species-Inspired Research for Innovative Treatments), which seeks to develop animal models that better mimic human inflammation and to uncover novel drug targets that leverage species-specific responses to inflammation. His work at the...
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  Associate Faculty
  George Whitesides, Ph.D.
  George is currently researching physical and organic chemistry, materials science, biophysics, complexity, surface science, microfluidics, self-assembly, micro- and nanotechnology, science for developing economies, origin of life, and cell-surface biochemistry. Given this broad range of research, he is active in multiple Wyss Institute Focus Areas, including Bioinspired Therapeutics & Diagnostics and Immuno-Materials. Much of his work...
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  Associate Faculty
  Wesley P. Wong, Ph.D.
  Wesley is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School in the Departments of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology and Pediatrics and is an Investigator at the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. Broadly, he is interested in understanding the physical basis behind how biological systems work at the nanoscale, with a...
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  Associate Faculty
  Robert Wood, Ph.D.
  Artificial Intelligence is typically focused on algorithms for perception and control for autonomous robots able to make and act on decisions in real environments. On the contrary, Rob’s research is focused on the design, mechanics, materials, and manufacturing of novel robot platforms that make the perception, control, or action easier or more robust for natural, unstructured,...