Director, Microscale Tissue Engineering Laboratory Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Assistant Adjunct Professor of Medicine M.D., Harvard Medical School; Ph.D., Medical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology; M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.S., Brown University E-mail: sbhatia@bioeng.ucsd.edu

Biographical Data:

Dr. Sangeeta N. Bhatia joined the Bioengineering Department at UCSD in 1998 after completing postdoctoral training in the Center for Engineering in Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She trained at Harvard/MIT under the guidance of Dr. Mehmet Toner, a tissue engineer and cryobiologist. She has also had several stints in industry in the areas of biotechnology, medical devices, and in pharmaceutical drug development. She holds a number of patents for both clinical and biotechnological applications of engineering principles. She is the recent recipient of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship and the Whitaker Young Investigator Grant. Her current research is in the area of cellular therapies for liver disease and biological micro-electro-mechanical systems (BioMEMS).

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