Sangeeta N. Bhatia

Dr. Bhatia joined the board in 2015. She currently serves as the John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Engineering at MIT, Director of the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine, and an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She also holds appointments at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, the Broad Institute, the Wyss Institute, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In 2018, Dr. Bhatia was on sabbatical from MIT while she served as a co-founder of Glympse Bio, a private company focused on developing in vivo sensing technology dedicated to disease monitoring. Prior to joining MIT in 2005, Dr. Bhatia was a professor of bioengineering and medicine at the University of California at San Diego from 1998 through 2005. Dr. Bhatia holds a Sc.B. in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University, an S.M. in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from MIT, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bhatia was the 25th person in history to be an elected member of all three US National Academies: National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Engineering. She has been honored with the Lemelson-MIT Prize, the Heinz Medal, and the Othmer Gold Medal for groundbreaking inventions and advocacy for women in STEM fields.

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