Tejal A. Desai

Tejal Ashwin Desai (born June 3, 1972) is the Deborah Cowan Professor[1] in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at University of California, San Francisco, Director of the Health Innovations via Engineering Initiative (HIVE), and head of the Therapeutic Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory.[2] She was formerly an associate professor at Boston University (2002–06) and an assistant professor at University of Illinois at Chicago (1998–2001).[3] She is a researcher in the area of therapeutic micro and nanotechnology and has authored and edited at least one book on the subject [4] and another on biomaterials.[5]

Desai attended Brown University, where she received a Sc. B. in biomedical engineering in 1994. In 1998 she graduated with a Ph.D. from the joint UCSF/UC Berkeley Bioengineering department, advised by Mauro Ferrari.[6]

She was elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2012.[1], fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), fellow of the Controlled Release Society (CRS), and she is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Inventors.