Ali Khademhosseini is a Professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and a faculty at the Harvard-MIT’s Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and as well as an Associate Faculty at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. He is also a Junior Principal Investigator at Japan’s World Premier International – Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR) at Tohoku University where he directs a satellite laboratory. In addition, he is an eminent scholar at Konkuk University in Korea, as well as a Hi-Ci Professor at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia.
His research is bsed on developing micro- and nanoscale biomaterials to control cellular behavior with particular emphasis in developing engineered materials and systems for tissue engineering. He is also developing ‘organ-on-a-chip’ systems that aim to mimic human response to various chemicals in vitro. In addition, 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 also pioneered various high performance biomaterials for medical applications that are currently being pursued for clinical translation. He has edited multiple books / journal special issues and is an author on >450 peer-reviewed journal articles, editorials and review papers, >60 book chapters/edited books and >20 patent/disclosure applications. His work has been published in leading journals and routinely highlighted in international media. He has been cited ~25,000 times and has an H-index of 83. Also, he has given over >250 invited seminars and keynote lectures. In 2014, 2015, and 2016 he was also selected by Thomson Reuters as one of the World’s Most Influential Minds.
Dr. Khademhosseini’s interdisciplinary research has been recognized by over 40 major national and international awards. He is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor given by the US government for early career investigators. He has also received the Victor K. Lamer Award, the Unilever Award, and the BIOT Young Investigator Award of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Polymer Award and has been recognized by major governmental awards including the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. In 2007, he was named a TR35 recipient by the Technology Review Magazine as one of the world’s top young innovators. In 2011, he received the Pioneers of Miniaturization Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) for his contribution to microscale tissue engineering and microfluidics. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE), NANOSMAT Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Dr. Khademhosseini is highly interested in training students and postdoctoral fellows for which he received the MIT’s Outstanding Undergraduate mentor. Over 40 of his previous trainees have gone to academia as faculty at institutions including Harvard University-Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, University of California-Riverside, Arizona State University, Texas A&M University, University of Pittsburgh, INSERM, Northeastern University, Hanyang University, Singapore National University and Tsinghua University.
Dr. Khademhosseini is an Associate Editor for ACS Nano. Previously, he served as the Research Highlights editor for Lab on a Chip. He is on the editorial boards of numerous journals including Small, RSC Advances, Advanced Healthcare Materials, Biomaterials Science, Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Biomacromolecules, Reviews on Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Materials, Journal of Biomaterials Science-Polymer Edition and Biofabrication. He is the chair of the Bionanotechnology Technical Activities Committee for the IEEE-EMBS. He is a standing member of the NIH BTSS (Bioengineering, Technology and Surgical Sciences) study section. 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.
Awards and Honors
2016 TERMIS-AM Senior Scientist Award
2016 BMES Fellow
2016 Thompson Reuters – Highly Cited Researcher
2016 Most Cited Researchers List in Materials Science and Engineering by Elsevier Scopus Data
2016 University of Toronto Engineering Alumni Hall of Distinction
2016 AIChE Division 15b Award
2016 BWH Senior Faculty Mentor Award
2016 Fellow in Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE)
2016 Khwarizmi Prize
2016 Journal for Laboratory Automation Ten Award (JALA Ten)
2015 NANOSMAT Fellow
2015 Royal Society of Chemistry Fellow
2015 Thompson Reuters – Highly Cited Researcher
2015 Kavli Early Career Award in Nanoscience, Materials Research Society (MRS)
2015 Blavatnik Foundation National Award for Young Scientists Finalist
2014 Nano Young Investigator Award, American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
2014 IUMRS Singapore Young Researcher Award
2014 Thompson Reuters – Highly Cited Researcher
2014 Blavatnik Foundation National Award for Young Scientists Finalist
2014 American Chemical Society—Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry
2014-2015 EMBS Distinguished Lecturer
2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
2014 US National Academy of Engineering (NAS) and National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and Brazilian Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science and Engineering—participant
2013 Owens Corning Early Career Award, Materials Engineering and Sciences Division of the AIChE
2013 IEEE-Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Technical Achievement Award
2013 Controlled Release Society Young Investigator Award
2013 Tae Gwan Park Award for Emerging Biomaterials
2013 Journal for Laboratory Automation Ten Award (JALA Ten)
2012 Small Young Innovator Award, Small Journal
2012 NAS-Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium—Participant
2012 Kavli Fellow
2012 Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator Award
2012 National Academy of Engineering/Grainger Foundation-Frontiers of Engineering Collaborative Research Grant
2012 Curtis W. McGraw Research Award, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
2012 Young Investigator Award, Division of Biochemical Technology, American Chemical Society
2012 Polymer Int’l/Int’l Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Polymer Award
2012 American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow
2012 Biotechnology and Bioengineering Daniel I.C. Wang Award
2012 National Academy of Engineering—United States Frontiers of Engineering—Organizer
2011 Pioneers of Miniaturization Prize—Royal Society of Chemistry’s Lab on a Chip/Corning Inc.
2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
2011 National Academy of Engineering—United States Frontiers of Engineering—Participant
2011 IEEE- Early Career Award in Nanotechnology
2011 Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellowship, University of Texas-Austin
2011 Think Big Delphi Fellowship
2011 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship
2011 American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Award
2011 Society for Biomaterials Young Investigator Award
2010 Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society—North America (TERMIS—NA) Young Investigator Award
2010 NSF Alan T. Waterman Award, Honorable Mention
2010 Allan P. Colburn Award, American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
2010 Unilever Award, Surface and Colloid Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society
2010 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award
2010 Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) Innovation Award
2010 Journal for Laboratory Automation Ten Award (JALA Ten)
2010 Australia-Harvard Fellowship—Harvard Club of Australia (HCA) Foundation
2009 Int’l Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering Young Faculty Member Award
2009 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award
2009 University of Toronto 7T6 Alumni Early Career Award
2008 IEEE- EMBS Early Career Achievement Award
2008 Outstanding abstract at the Biomedical Engineering Society Conference
2008-10 Visiting Research Professor, University of Sydney, Australia
2008 Victor K. LaMer Award, Surface and Colloid Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society
2007 BMW Group Scientific Award “Passion for Innovation”
2007 “World’s Top 35 Innovators Under 35—TR35”, Technology Review Magazine
Interview with Dr. Khademhosseini
