Professor Mehmet Toner
Dr Mehmet Toner is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and also a Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Dr Toner received a Bachelor of Science degree from Istanbul Technical University and a MS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), both in Mechanical Engineering. Subsequently he completed his PhD degree in Medical Engineering at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in 1989. Dr Toner's research interests include tissue engineering and preservation, and micro/nanosystems in clinical medicine. Dr Toner has received funding from NIH, NSF, DARPA, Whitaker Foundation, National Textile Center, and many industrial outfits. Dr. Toner serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of multiple biotechnology and medical device companies as well as he is a co-founder of several start-up companies. He has published over 200 scientific publications and has delivered over 350 invited and scientific meeting presentations.
