Sangeeta N. Bhatia, M.D., Ph.D., trained in engineering, medicine, and biology, and leads a research lab that works at the intersection of all three areas to develop ‘tiny technologies’ for understanding, diagnosing and treating human disease. Dr. Bhatia received her bachelor’s degree from Brown University, M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT, M.D. from Harvard Medical School and graduate and post-doctoral training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, the John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT, and the Director of the Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies. She also serves as a Biomedical Engineer at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute, and member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and MIT Center for Environmental and Health Sciences. Prior to MIT, Bhatia served on the faculty of the Bioengineering Department at the University of California at San Diego and worked in industry at Pfizer, Genetics Institute, ICI Pharmaceuticals, and Organogenesis. Dr. Bhatia’s contributions have included over 100 publications – including co-authoring the first undergraduate textbook on tissue engineering – and over 20 issued or pending patents in the areas of tissue engineering, biomedical microsystems, and nanobiotechnology.

Among her many awards and honors, Dr. Bhatia has been recognized as one of the "the nation's most promising young professors in science and engineering” by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, one of the “100 most innovative young scientists worldwide” by the MIT Technology Review, one of the top “Scientists to Watch” in The Scientist, and one of Massachusetts’ “High Tech Women to Watch”. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Global Indus Technovators Award, the Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Award given by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Young Investigator Award of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology, and has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Dr. Bhatia has also co-founded two biotechnology start-ups, consults for numerous industry, government and academic organizations, and is an active in raising awareness about the importance of gender diversity in science and engineering.