BioE Graduate Seminars

Event Introduction

Advances in bioengineering of artificial tissues

Abstract

He will introduce to his recent research in relation to organ-on-a-chip devices, state-of-the-art biomaterials, microfluidic technologies, and novel 3D bioprinting technologies for tissue engineering applications.

About speaker 

Dr. Shabir Hassan is a Research Scientist who will start as a faculty at Harvard from Jan 2021. He completed his bachelor's in Chemistry, Biology and English from University of Kashmir and his master's in Biotechnology from University of Pune. After a year  of research in molecular biology through LSZGS of UZH/ETH Zurich, he moved to a spectroscopy lab for his PhD. He used ultrafast laser spectroscopy to study protein folding, aggregation, and photothermal effects in proteins in real time. After his PhD, he won the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) fellowship in 2016 to carry out his research at Harvard Medical School in drug and metabolite delivery applications of novel nanoparticles targeting diseases and other medical conditions. In 2018, he won an Advanced Grant from SNSF to do his collaborative research at Harvard/MIT and University of Twente, Netherlands. He was awarded BWH and Harvard Medical School's Award of Excellence for Mentorship in 2019.He currently serves as Associate Editor, MIT Science Policy Review.