Ali Khademhosseini

Ali Khademhosseini
Khademhosseini in 2022
Born (1975-10-30) October 30, 1975 (age 48)
EducationUniversity of Toronto (BSc, MASc)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
AwardsMustafa Prize, PECASE
Scientific career
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Doctoral advisorRobert S. Langer
Other academic advisorsPeter 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.

  1. ^ "Terasaki Institute Welcomes New Director". Retrieved 28 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Advanced Science Hall of Fame". 29 July 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2023.