Eben Alsberg
Professor at University of Illinois, Chicago
Research Health Scientist at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center
USA
Eben Alsberg is the Richard and Loan Hill Chair and Distinguished Professor of the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Orthopaedic Surgery, Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine, and Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois, Chicago and is a Research Health Scientist at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center. He received his B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering and also in Mechanical Engineering and Material Science from Duke University in 1994, and an M.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering (1998), an M.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering (1998), and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (2002) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
He was then a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Vascular Biology Program at Harvard Medical School. His laboratory focuses on strategies to engineer functional biologic replacements to repair damaged or diseased tissues in the body. He has co-authored >160 peer reviewed papers and book chapters, and his work has been recognized with the TERMIS Senior Scientist Award, the Biovalley Young Investigator Award from the TESI, the Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging Award, the Crain’s Cleveland Business Forty Under 40 Award, the Technion Lady Davis Fellowship, a Visiting Professorship at Kyung Hee University, and election as fellow of the NAI, AIMBE, BMES, IAMBE and TERM. Alsberg has ~30 patents issued or pending in the field of tissue engineering and has given >180 invited lectures around the world.
