Salman Khetani, PhD
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Contact
Building & Room:
200 SEO
Address:
851 S Morgan St, MC 063, Chicago, IL 60607
Office Phone:
Email:
About
Salman Khetani, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, leads the Microfabricated Tissue Models Laboratory (mtm.uic.edu), which is dedicated to improving human health through engineered tissue systems, including liver, cardiac, and intestine currently. The systems are useful for screening toxic drugs in vitro prior to reaching human clinical trials through organ-on-a- chip) modeling aspects of global human diseases for the development of better therapeutics (drug discovery), and cell based therapies for patients suffering from end- stage disease through regenerative medicine. He has published more than 65 articles in peer-reviewed journals and his work has been cited more than 6000 times by his fellow researchers. Dr. Khetani has also received numerous awards and honors throughout his career, including a NSF Career award, Departmental Rising Star Award from the UIC College of Medicine, College of Engineering Teaching Award, and a School of Biomedical Engineering Teaching Excellence Award.