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Martin Yarmush

Martin (Maish) L. Yarmush (born October 8, 1952, in Brooklyn, New York) is a distinguished American academic, physician, engineer, and scientist, widely recognized for his pioneering contributions to biotechnology and bioengineering. His academic career began in 1984 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he served as a Principal Research Associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering and was named a Lucille P. Markey Scholar in Biomedical Science. In 1988, Dr. Yarmush joined Rutgers University as a Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and a member of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM). In 1995, he returned to Boston to assume the Helen Andrus Benedict Professorship of Surgery and Bioengineering in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST). That same year, he founded the Center for Engineering in Medicine—now known as the Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery (CEMS)—based at the Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals, including Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2007, Dr. Yarmush returned to Rutgers to become the inaugural holder of the Paul and Mary Monroe Endowed Chair in Science and Engineering and a Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering. He continues to maintain active academic and clinical affiliations in Boston, serving as a Lecturer in Surgery and Bioengineering at Harvard Medical School and as a Senior Scientific Staff Member at Shriners Children’s Boston. Yarmush continues to thrive in a career defined by visionary academic leadership, pioneering translational innovation, and a profound cross-disciplinary influence spanning engineering, medicine, and the life sciences.

Yarmush is the founding editor of the ''Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering'' which was first published in 1999 by the nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews. He is also a series editor for the book series ''Frontiers In Nanobiomedical Research''. In 2015 Yarmush was elected as a member of the National Academy of Inventors, and in 2017, Yarmush was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering "for pioneering advances in cellular, tissue, and organ engineering and for leadership in applying metabolic engineering to human health." Provided by Wikipedia