Speakers

Mehmet Toner

Place of Birth : Istanbul, Turkey
Position : Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology; Director, Center for Engineering in Medicine & Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital; Director of Research, Shriners Children’s Boston
Field of study : Biomedical engineering, including microfluidics, nanotechnology, diagnostics, biopreservation, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and cryobiology.

Dr. Mehmet Toner is a distinguished biomedical engineer with a career spanning over three decades in academia and research. He obtained his Bachelor of Science from Istanbul Technical University and his Master of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), both in Mechanical Engineering. He completed his Ph.D. in Medical Engineering from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in 1989. Currently, he holds the Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Harvard Medical School and is the Director of Research at Shriners Children’s Boston. He also co-directs the Center for Engineering in Medicine & Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Toner has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, including the "YC Fung Young Award in Bioengineering" and the "H.R. Lissner Medal" from the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, as well as the "Luyet Medal" from the Society for Cryobiology. His significant contributions to science and engineering have earned him inductions into the Turkish Academy of Science, the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, the U.S. National Academy of Inventors, and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

• PhD: Medical Engineering, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
• MS: Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• BS: Mechanical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University

• Director, Center for Engineering in Medicine & Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Director of Research, Shriners Children’s Boston
• Helen Andrus Benedict Professor, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology