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DONALD E. INGBER, MD, Ph.D. is the first incumbent of the Judah Folkman
Professorship of Vascular Biology in the Department of Pathology at Harvard
Medical School, and a member of the Pathology, Surgery and Vascular Biology
Programs at Children¹s Hospital Boston. He is also the acting Co-Director of
the Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. He
has helped to bridge the Harvard hospitals, Harvard University and MIT
through his involvement in the Center for Integration in Medicine and
Innovative Technology (CIMIT), Harvard-MIT Health Science & Technology
Division and Dana Farber-Harvard Cancer Center. He is also a member of the
Center for Nanoscale Systems and the Materials Research Science &
Engineering Center at Harvard, as well as the MIT Center for Bioengineering.
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Ingber has authored 260 publications and 30 patents in areas ranging from
tissue engineering, medical microdevices, and nanotechnologies to
anti-angiogenic therapeutics and computer software. Ingber's theoretical and
experimental contributions have led to honors in medical science, anatomy,
developmental biology, mechanical engineering, and theoretical mechanics
from leading institutions including the Mayo Clinic, Stanford, and MIT as
well as recognition by NASA and the American Cancer Society. He also helped
to found two biotechnology start-ups, and has consulted for multiple
pharmaceutical, biotechnology, venture capital and private investment
companies, as well as National Public Radio, the Department of Defense and
the Office of National Intelligence. Through his interdisciplinary
collaborations with experts in chemistry, physics, engineering, magnetics
and optics, Ingber has helped to develop multiple new experimental nano- and
microtechnologies, as well as engineered tissues and angiogenesis
inhibitor-based cancer therapeutics that have entered human clinical trials.
His pioneering work has led to the discovery of fundamental design
principles that govern how molecules are structured into living cells, as
well as how cells are integrated within tissues and organs, that have helped
to birth the fields of Mechanobiology, Angiogenesis, Tissue Engineering,
Nanobiotechnology, and Biomimetics.
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