Ep. 6 Tissue Engineering Career Conversations featuring Dr. Tejal Desai, Dean of Engineering, Brown University
Tissue Engineering Career ConversationsShow Notes
Our sixth episode features Dr. Tejal Desai, currently Deborah Cowan Endowed Professor and former chair of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and the incoming Dean of Engineering at Brown University. She received her B.S. from Brown University in biomedical engineering in 1994 and was awarded a Ph.D. in bioengineering jointly from UCSF and UC Berkeley in 1998. Dr. Desai’s research spans multiple disciplines including materi...
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