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Education | University of Toronto (BSc, MASc) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
Awards | Mustafa Prize, PECASE |
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Doctoral advisor | Robert S. Langer |
Other academic advisors | Peter Zandstra |
Ali Khademhosseini (Persian: علی خادمحسینی, born October 30, 1975) is an Iranian-born Canadian-American engineer. He is the CEO of the Terasaki Institute, non-profit research organization in Los Angeles, and Omeat Inc., a cultivated-meat startup. Before taking his current CEO roles, he spent one year at Amazon Inc.[1] Prior to that he was the Levi Knight chair and professor at the University of California-Los Angeles where he held a multi-departmental professorship in Bioengineering, Radiology, Chemical, and Biomolecular Engineering as well as the Director of Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics (C-MIT).[2] From 2005 to 2017, he was a professor at Harvard Medical School, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.