Michael J. Cima

Dr. Cima has been a Company Board member since June 2016. He is a Professor of Materials Science and the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Cima is a widely-recognized innovator of medical products and materials engineering technologies. He also has extensive entrepreneurial experience, having co-founded a number of drug delivery and diagnostics companies including Microchips Biotech; T-2 Biosystems, a medical diagnostics company; and Taris Biomedical, a company focused on developing new treatments for bladder disease. He earned a B. S. in Chemistry in 1982 (Phi Beta Kappa) and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 1986, both from the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Cima joined the MIT faculty in 1986 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to full Professor in 1995. He was elected a fellow of the American Ceramics Society in 1997 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011.