Explore popular quotes and sayings by a professor Sangeeta N. Bhatia.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Sangeeta N. Bhatia, M.D., Ph.D. is an American biological engineer and the John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Bhatia's research investigates applications of micro- and nano-technology for tissue repair and regeneration. She applies ideas from computer technology and engineering to the design of miniaturized biomedical tools for the study and treatment of diseases, in particular liver disease, hepatitis, malaria and cancer.
In fact, if we cut 50 percent of the liver out, it'll be back in two weeks.
An interesting opportunity is actually not just thinking about building organs for patients, but actually building little tiny organs that you could do drug screening on.
For the liver, what's so interesting is that there's no stem cell in the liver. So the normal liver actually can regenerate. It's one of the only organs in the human body that can do this, and we've known this since the time of Greek mythology.