Alan Grodzinsky
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'''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]
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[[Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty|Grodzinsky, Alan]]