May 2018

Ali Khademhosseini, PhD, is the Levi Knight Professor of Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, and Radiology at the Univ. of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (Phone: (310) 206-5819; Fax: (310) 794-5956; Email: khademh@ucla.edu). He is the Founding Director of the Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics at UCLA, as well as an associate director of the California NanoSystems Institute. He joined UCLA in Nov. 2017 after working as a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is recognized as a leader in combining micro- and nanoengineering...Read more

Dr. Samad Ahadian is an Assistant Professor at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation. Previously, he was a development engineer at the Department of Bioengineering, UCLA. He has done extensive research on skeletal muscle tissue engineering, cardiac tissue regeneration, nanobiomaterials, hydrogels, and antimicrobial materials. He received his Ph.D. in materials science from Tohoku University (Japan). He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and then an Assistant Professor at Tohoku University. Following that, he held positions as a Research Fellow at the University of...Read more

Alan J. Grodzinsky, PhD, is the Director of MIT’s Center for Biomedical Engineering, and is Professor of Biological, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering in the Depts. of Biological Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Mechanical Engineering at MIT. His research interests include osteoarthritis and the degeneration and repair of cartilage, drug delivery for osteoarthritis, cellular mechanotransduction, and molecular nanomechanics. He has published over 320 refereed journal articles and reviews in these fields of research. He codeveloped two required core graduate...Read more