Current Members

Faculty

Elazer Edelman

Director of Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
Edward J. Poitras Professor, MIT
Professor of Medicine, HMS
Mercedes Balcells-Camps

Principal Research Scientist
Tissue Engineering and Vascular Biology
Farhad R. Nezami

Lead Investigator, Division of Cardiac Surgery, BWH
Assistant Professor of Surgery, HMS
Bioinformatics and Computational Cardiology
Natalie Artzi

Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS
Biomaterials
Steven Keller

Assistant Professor of Medicine, JHU
Mechanical Circulatory Support

Postdoctoral Associates and Fellows

Efrat Goffer

Postdoctoral Associate
Mechanical Circulatory Support
Natalia Drosu

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellows
Tissue Engineering and Vascular Biology
Yiqing Liu

Postdoctoral Associate
Bioinformatics and Computational Cardiology
Joseph Rosenthal

Visiting Scientist
Tissue Engineering and Vascular Biology, Biomaterials
Shaniel Bowen

Postdoctoral Fellow
Tissue Engineering and Vascular Biology
Rohola Zandie
Postdoctoral Associate
Maryam Alsharqi
Postdoctoral Fellow

Graduate Students

Kimberly Lamberti

PhD Candidate – Health Sciences and Technology
Mechanical Circulatory Support
Farhan Khodaee

PhD Candidate – Mechanical Engineering
Tissue Engineering and Vascular Biology
Antonio Salazar Martin

PhD Candidate – Health Sciences and Technology
Tissue Engineering and Vascular Biology
Julie Shen

PhD Candidate – Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Circulatory Support
Karim Kadry

PhD Candidate – Health Sciences and Technology
Bioinformatics and Computational Cardiology
Rachel Zale

PhD Candidate – Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Circulatory Support
Jonas Sogbadji

PhD Candidate – Mechanical Engineering
Bioinformatics and Computational Cardiology
Connie Wang

PhD Student – Biological Engineering
Biomaterials
Jesse George-Akpenyi

PhD Student – Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Circulatory Support
Ahmed Salih

PhD Student – Mechanical Engineering
Biomaterials

Visiting Students

Mert Ertugrul

Bioinformatics and Computational Cardiology
Francesc Canalejo Codina

Tissue Engineering and Vascular Biology