Alan Grodzinsky 1969490 207077006 2008-04-21T08:33:32Z Edward 4261 link [[tissue engineering]] '''Alan J. Grodzinsky''' is an [[United States|American]] [[scientist]] and Professor of Electrical, Mechanical and Biological Engineering and Director of the [[Center for Biomedical Engineering]] at [[MIT]]. Grodzinsky graduated in Electrical Engineering from MIT in [[1971]], obtaining a [[doctorate]] three years later under the supervision of James Melcher, with a thesis on membrane electromechanics. Grodzinsky was a founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering in [[1993]]. He received a [[National Institutes of Health|NIH]] Merit Award in [[1994]]. Grodzinsky is the leader of a research group investigating the mechanical, chemical and electrical properties of connective tissue, including studies on [[cartilage]] [[tissue engineering]], with implications for understanding and curing diseases such as [[osteoarthritis]]. ==External links== *[http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1994/cartilage-1109.html MIT press release, NIH merit award 1994] *[http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/cartilage-0612.html MIT probes cartilage on nanoscale] [[Category:American scientists|Grodzinsky]] [[Category:Living people|Grodzinsky, Alan]] [[Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty|Grodzinsky, Alan]]