Dena
Shahriari

Assistant Professor, Dept of Orthopaedics and SBME

dena.shahriari@ubc.ca

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Research Theme:

Research Interests:

smart biomaterials; neuroal interfaces; biosensors; tissue regeneration; organ augmentation

Biography:

Dr. Shahriari leads the BioAugmentative Interfaces Laboratory at ICORD with research at the intersection of materials science, electrical engineering, and medicine. The team develops neuroelectronic devices, sensors, and smart biomaterials to interface with biological tissues and thus provide new capabilities for tissue regeneration and organ augmentation.

Education and Training

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. Post Doctoral Fellow at Bioelectronics Laboratory with Prof. Polina Anikeeva. Research Laboratory of Electronics; McGovern Brain Institute

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. PhD in Macromolecular Science and Engineering

University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. BS in Bioengineering