Alan Grodzinsky

Alan J. Grodzinsky is an American scientist and Professor of Electrical, Mechanical and Biological Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering at MIT.

Grodzinsky graduated in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1971, obtaining a doctorate three years later under the supervision of James Melcher, with a thesis on membrane electromechanics.

Grodzinsky was a founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering in 1993. He received a NIH Merit Award in 1994.

Grodzinsky is the leader of a research group investigating the mechanical, chemical and electrical properties of connective tissue, including studies on cartilage tissue engineering, with implications for understanding and curing diseases such as osteoarthritis.

External links

* [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1994/cartilage-1109.html MIT press release, NIH merit award 1994]
* [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/cartilage-0612.html MIT probes cartilage on nanoscale]