Sangeeta Bhatia

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Sangeeta Bhatia

Sangeeta N. Bhatia (* 1968 ) is an American bio-engineer and medical doctor . She is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research area is the development of novel material systems using microstructure technology and nanotechnology for the research, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, especially cancer and liver diseases.

Life

Sangeeta Bhatia came from a family of Indian immigrants to the United States. She first studied at Brown University . After a Bachelor Accounts in medical technology (Biomedical Engineering) in 1990, she first worked for a year at ICI Pharmaceuticals in Wilmington (Delaware) , but then continued her studies, this time at MIT, look out for a Master in Engineering (Mechanical Engineering ) first earned a doctorate in medical technology from MIT in 1997 in the Health Sciences and Technology program jointly offered by Harvard University and MIT, and a doctorate in medicine from Harvard in 1999 . She then was a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital .

From 1999 to 2005 she researched and taught in the Bioengineering Department of the University of California, San Diego , but then returned to MIT.

In 2016 she became Founding Scientific Director of the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine at MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research .

As of early 2018, she is also at MIT John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies . She is also a researcher (investigator) at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute .

Bathia was also involved in the founding of several biotechnology companies, is a member of the scientific advisory boards of several pharmaceutical and medical companies and has been a member of the board of directors of the pharmaceutical company Vertex Pharmaceuticals since June 2015 .

She is married to Harvard University biologist Jagesh Shah and has two children.

Services

Bhatia's research aims at the application of miniaturization methods from engineering in the field of medicine. Using microtechnology and nanotechnology , she and her staff work to connect living organisms and synthetic components to achieve advances in medical diagnostics, tissue engineering, and disease modeling. In particular, Bhatia works on the application of nanotechnology for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and liver diseases . The developments under her leadership include, among other things, nanosensors for the early detection of tumors through simple urine tests , but also artificial micro-livers that can be used for the model investigation of liver diseases and drug metabolism.

honors and awards

Sangeeta Bhatia has received numerous academic awards and is a member of various learned societies , including the National Academy of Inventors , the National Academy of Engineering (both since 2015), the National Academy of Sciences (since 2017), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2015 ) and the National Academy of Medicine (since 2019).

In 2014 she was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize , in 2015 the Heinz Award for Technology, Economy and Employment, and in 2019 the Othmer Gold Medal .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Megan Scudellari: The Organist . In: The Scientist . May 2013 ( the-scientist.com ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Faculty: Sangeeta Bhatia. In: imes.mit.edu. Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (IMES), Massachusetts Institute of Technology , accessed February 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Sangeeta N. Bhatia, MD, PhD. In: ki.mit.edu. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , accessed February 6, 2018 .
  4. ^ Sangeeta N. Bhatia MD, Ph.D. In: bloomberg.com. Bloomberg Business , accessed February 6, 2018 .
  5. ^ Board of Directors. In: vrtx.com. Vertex Pharmaceuticals , accessed February 6, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Othmer Gold Medal. Science History Institute , accessed on March 1, 2019 (English, contains profile of the awardee Bhatia).
personal data
SURNAME Bhatia, Sangeeta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bhatia, Sangeeta N.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American bio-engineer and medical doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1968