Ali Khademhoseeini, Ph.D.
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Living Legos
Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program, has recently been named one of Technology Review’s Top 35 Young Innovators of 2007 for his inventive tissue engineering research.

Ali Khademhosseini, assistant professor in medicine and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School, hopes to improve engineered tissues with an approach he likens to building with living Legos.

As a first step toward creating a heart, he aligns cardiac muscle cells to form small, beating strings. He then embeds these strings in a supportive, gelatinous polymer to make building blocks that can be assembled into bundles resembling the sheets of muscle that make up the heart.

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