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Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia earned her M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1999, and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1997. Dr. Bhatia has been an associate professor in the department of bioengineering and an associate adjunct professor in gastroenterology in the department of medicine at the University of California, San Diego. She is also a member of the UCSD Cancer Center. In 2000, Dr. Bhatia was selected one of America’s Notable Women, and in 2003 was named one of the 100 most innovative scientists by the MIT Technology Review. Also in 2003, Dr. Bhatia received the Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. She has authored/co-authored two books and over 40 publications, including the first textbook in Tissue Engineering. She also serves on a number of scientific advisory boards, including the World Technology Evaluation Council-Advisory Board to U.S. Agencies on the International State of Biosensing, BioMEMS & Biomedical Nanotechnology World, and the National Academies Futures Keck Initiative on Nanobiotechnology. She also has served on several National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Scientific Foundation (NSF) panels and has been awarded patents in the areas of ‘liver-on-a-chip’ and the interface between biology and microsystems. Dr. Bhatia also serves on the Xenogenics Corporation Board of Directors.
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