Rate My Professor Sangeeta Bhatia

Sangeeta N. Bhatia is the John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her BS from Brown University, followed by an MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and an MD from Harvard Medical School. Prior to her appointment at MIT in 2005, Bhatia held a tenured position at the University of California, San Diego. She directs the Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies and serves as Director of the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. Bhatia is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, an Institute Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Associated Faculty at the Wyss Institute, and a Biomedical Engineer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Bhatia’s research centers on engineering micro- and nanotechnologies to address challenges in human health, including cancer detection and precision therapeutics, tissue regeneration, drug metabolism modeling, liver disease, and interactions with pathogens. Her team has developed nanosensors for early tumor detection via urine tests and human microlivers for disease modeling. She and her trainees have launched multiple biotechnology companies. Bhatia has received the Lemelson-MIT Prize and the Heinz Award, and she is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Inventors. She serves on Brown University’s Board of Fellows and holds additional advisory and board roles in academia and industry.