Ali Khademhosseini is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard-MIT's Division of Health Sciences and Technology and the Harvard Medical School. 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 and drug delivery.

He has published 2 edited books, 80+ peer reviewed papers, 20 book chapters, 100+ abstracts, and 17 issued or pending patents. He has also been invited to give over 100 seminars world-wide. His accomplishments have been recognized by a number of awards including the Outstanding Undergraduate Research (UROP) mentor at MIT (2004), the Outstanding Researcher in Polymer Science by OMNOVA / MIT (2005) and the Coulter Foundation Early Career Award (2006). Also, he won the BMW Scientific Award (2007), one of the most prestigious international young innovator awards and the ACS Victor K. LaMer award (2007) for his doctoral thesis. In 2007, he was recognized as one of the top young innovators (TR35) by the Technology Review Magazine. He has also been the recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2009), as well as the Early Career awards of the University of Toronto’s Engineering School - class of 7T6 (2009) and the IEEE-EMBS society (2008), which is the largest international organization for biomedical engineers. He received his Ph.D. (2005) in bioengineering from MIT under the supervision of Prof. Robert Langer, and MASc (2001) and BSc (1999) in chemical and biomedical engineering from University of Toronto.  

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