Multifunctional Nanoparticles in Cancer Therapy
	Sangeeta Bhatia Associate Professor, Health Sciences and Technology/Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, USA

Sangeeta Bhatiar is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her work focuses on using micro- and nanotechnology tools to repair damaged tissues. Dr. Bhatia trained at Brown, MIT, and Harvard. After postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts General Hospital , she was a member of the Bioengineering Department at University of California at San Diego for 6 years. In 2005, she returned to Boston to join the MIT faculty. She has been awarded the David and Lucile Packard Fellowship given to the nation’s most promising young professors in science and engineering, the MIT TR100 Young Innovators Award, and been named one of San Diego’s ‘50 People to Watch in 2004’. Her research portfolio includes funding from NIH, NSF, DARPA, NASA, the Whitaker Foundation, the Packard Foundation, and private industry. She co-authored the first undergraduate textbook on tissue engineering and is a frequent advisor to governmental organizations on cell-based sensing, nanobiotechnology, and tissue engineering. She holds 12 issued or pending patents and has worked in industry at Pfizer, Genetics Institute, ICI Pharmaceuticals, and Organogenesis.

Speaking in the special symposium on Nanotechnology for Cancer Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment - CancerNano 2006.

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