Ali Khademhosseini is an Assistant Professor at Harvard-MIT's Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS).  He is also a Junior Principal Investigator at Japan’s World Premier Institute – Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR) at Tohoku University where he directs a satellite laboratory.  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. 

His research is based on developing micro- and nanoscale technologies to control cellular behavior with particular emphasis in developing microscale biomaterials and engineering systems for tissue engineering.   Currently, his laboratory is developing technologies to control the formation of vascularized tissues with appropriate microarchitectures as well as regulating stem cell differentiation within microengineered systems.  He has edited 3 books and is an author on over 120 peer reviewed papers, 30 book chapters, 100+ abstracts, and 14 patent/disclosure applications.  His work has been published in journals such as PNAS, JACS, Advanced Materials, Biomaterials and Lab on a chip and highlighted in Nature, Scientific American and Technology Review Magazine.  He has been cited ~2700 times and has an H-index of 30.  Also, he has been invited to give over 100 seminars at various academic and industrial institutions. 

Khademhosseini’s research efforts have earned him the AIChE Colburn award (2010), the TERMIS-NA Young Investigator Award (2010), the Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) Innovation award (2010), the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) Young Faculty award (2009), the NSF CAREER award (2009), the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator award (2010), the IEEE-EMBS (IEEE- Engineering in Medicine and Biology) Early Career award (2008), the Technology Review Magazine "Top Young Innovator” (TR35) award (2007), the BMW Group Scientific award (2007), the ACS Victor K. LaMer award (2008), the ACS Unilever award (2010) and the Coulter Foundation Early Career award (2006).  Khademhosseini's teaching efforts were recognized as MIT’s Outstanding Undergraduate mentor (2004). 

Khademhosseini in highly interested in training students and postdoctoral fellows, 9 of whom remain as faculty in academia at institutions including Harvard University-Massachusetts General Hospital, Hanyang University, Singapore National University, Inha University, Tsinghua University, Yeungnam University and Kyung Hee University.

Khademhosseini is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Nanomedicine, as well as Biomedical Microdevices and a Principal Editor of the journal Nano-LIFE.  He is also a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Biomaterials Science Polymer Edition, Biofabrication, and Micro and Nanosystems. He is currently the chair of the BioMEMS Technical Activities Committee for the IEEE-Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

Contact information:

Prof. Ali Khademhosseini
Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital
65 Landsdowne Street, Rm. 265
Cambridge, MA, USA, 02139
Office: (617) 768-8395 
Fax: (617) 768-8477
Mobile: (617) 388-9271
Email:  alik@mit.edu OR alik@rics.bwh.harvard.edu