Sangeeta N. Bhatia
“As a child, I was always tinkering, always taking apart the telephone and figuring out how things work.”
Sangeeta was named one of the 10 "Women to Watch" on Jan. 23 2009 by the newspaper Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology.
Sangeeta Bhatia is co-founder of Hepregen Corp. in Medford. She is also a professor of health sciences and technology and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sangeeta Bhatia joined the MIT faculty in 2005 as an associate professor, following six years in the Jacobs School of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
While her concentration as both a researcher and entrepreneur is on biomedical engineering and tissue engineering, Bhatia, 40, is also working on research to use nanoparticles to help imaging technology find tumors long before traditional methods can find them.
Her many awards and honors include the David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for being one of the nation’s “most promising young professors in science and engineering” (1999 to 2004); the Global Indus Technovators Award presented to the 20 most innovative scientists worldwide (2004); the MIT Technology Review TR100 Young Innovators Award (2003); the Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Award, presented by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2003); and the Teacher of the Year Award from her UCSD department (2001). She was also named one of San Diego’s “50 People to Watch in 2004.”
Sangeeta Bhatia received her BSc from Brown University, the MS in mechanical engineering from MIT, a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and her M.D. from Harvard Medical School. She also completed postdoctoral training at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Source:
Bio at MIT site
Interview at the Mass High Tech Site
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