Scientific Advisory Board

• Daniel Anderson, Ph.D.
• Alan Colman, Ph.D.
• Hongkui Deng, Ph.D.
• Sheng Ding, Ph.D.
• Rudolf Jaenisch, M.D.
• Jeffrey M. Karp, Ph.D.
• Gordon Keller, Ph.D.
• Robert Langer, Sc.D.
• Douglas A. Melton, Ph.D.
• Roy Ogle, Ph.D.
• Thomas Roberts, Ph.D.
• Lee Rubin, Ph.D.
• Robert Weinberg, Ph.D.
• Leonard Zon, M.D.

Jeffrey M. Karp, Ph.D.

Expertise: Biodegradable, biocompatible engineered materials and polymeric delivery systems

Instructor in Medicine, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Dr. Karp is a tenure-track faculty member and directs the Laboratory for Advanced Biomaterials and Stem Cell Based Therapeutics at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He has published 30 peer reviewed papers, 8 book chapters, 40 abstracts, and has 21 issued or pending patents, a number of which have been licensed by biotech companies. Dr. Karp obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in Chemical Engineering where he worked with Professor John Davies and Molly Shoichet. Upon graduation, he was awarded the Paul B. Madsen Award for the most innovative graduate student. He joined MIT as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow working in Institute Professor Robert Langer's laboratory for 3 years in the areas of human embryonic stem cells, photocrosslinkable degradable elastomers, materials for influencing cell rolling, biomedical adhesives, and BioMEMS technologies. In 2005 he won first prize at an MIT Chemical Engineering Research Competition for his work on enhancing the differentiation efficiency of human embryonic stem cells. Dr. Karp's work has been recognized by CNN, NPR Science Fridays, ABC News, MSNBC, CBC Quirks and Quarks, CanadaAM, BBC, Forbes, Popular Science, the Washington Post, the New York Post, and by Wired Magazine. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Nanomedicine and currently is an ad-hoc reviewer for 18 journals in areas covering biomaterials, tissue engineering, and biotechnology. In 2007 he was invited as one of the top engineers in the country between the ages of 30-45 to attend the National Academy of Engineering US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium at the Microsoft Institute in Seattle. In 2008 he was selected as the Outstanding Faculty Undergraduate Mentor among all faculty at MIT. Dr. Karp was recently recognized as being one of the top innovators in the world under the age of 35 by Technology Review Magazine (TR35).