Ali Tamayol
Ali Tamayol
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
UConn School of Engineering
Elected to the Academy in 2023

Education

Siraz University (Iran), 2003, BSc, Mechanical Engineering; Sharif University of Technology (Iran), 2005, MSc, Mechanical Engineering; Simon Fraser University (Canada), 2011, PhD, Engineering Science

Professional Area

Biomaterials, biofabrication, microengineering, drug delivery, bioprinting

Citation

For pioneering contributions to several fields including “bottom-up textile tissue engineering”, “smart bandages capable of sensing and on-demand delivery of therapeutics”, “the use of microneedles for wound healing” and “in situ bioprinting where scaffolds and biological materials are directly printed inside the patient’s body and in the defect site.”