Jennifer Elisseeff | |
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Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
Thesis | Transdermal Photopolymerization of Hydrogels for Cartilage Tissue Engineering |
Doctoral advisor | Robert S. Langer |
Notable students | Kaitlyn Sadtler |
Website | elisseefflab |
Jennifer Hartt Elisseeff (/əˈliːsiɛf/;[1] born September 25, 1973) is an American biomedical engineer, ophthalmologist and academic. She is the Morton Goldberg Professor and Director of the Translational Tissue Engineering Center at Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Wilmer Eye Institute with appointments in Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Orthopedic Surgery.[2] Elisseeff's research is in the fields of regenerative medicine and immunoengineering.
She was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine. She is also a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In 2019 she received the NIH Director's Pioneer Award.[3] Her research has been cited over 28,000 times and she has an h-index over 85.[4]