Ali Khademhosseini
Ali Khademhosseini is the Director and CEO of the Terasaki Institute and a former professor at the University of California – Los Angeles where he held a multi-departmental professorship in Bioengineering, Radiology, Chemical, and Biomolecular Engineering and served as the Director of Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics (C-MIT) at UCLA. Previously, he was also a Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. His studies are cited over 60,000 times according to Google scholar.
Ali was born in Tehran, Iran in 1975 and grew up in Toronto, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in bioengineering from MIT, and MASc and BASc degrees from University of Toronto both in chemical engineering.
Main Contributions
- Khademhosseini’s interdisciplinary research has been recognized over 70 major national and international awards
- Recipient of the Presidential Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by President Barack Obama, 2011
- From 2014 to 2019 he was selected by Thomson Reuters as one of the World’s Most Influential Minds
- Director and CEO of the Terasaki Institute
- Received the 500,000 USD Mustafa Prize, for his work on microfabricated hydrogel for biomedical applications, 2019
- Named a TR35 recipient by the Technology Review Magazine as one of the world’s top young innovators, 2007
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