Martin Yarmush

Who is Martin Yarmush?

Martin Yarmush is an American scientist, physician, and engineer. He is currently the Paul and Mary Monroe Professor of Science and Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at Rutgers University. He is also Lecturer in Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Center for Engineering in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Yarmush is also on the Senior Scientific Staff at the Shriners Burns Hospital in Boston, and a member of the Cancer Pharmacology and Preclinical Therapeutics Program in the Cancer Institute of New Jersey. At Rutgers, Yarmush directs several interdisciplinary units including: the Center for Innovative Ventures of Emerging Technologies, the Rutgers-UMDNJ Biotechnology Training Program, and the Rutgers Institute of Bioengineering. He is one of the most widely recognized and cited researchers in bioengineering and biotechnology, especially in the fields of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, applied immunology, and microfabrication and nanotechnology as it relates to biological and biomedical systems.