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Seyed Ali Mousavi Shaegh, PhD
Co-founder of Bone and Joint Research Lab
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Seyed Ali Mousavi Shaegh received Ph.D. in 2012 from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in Mechanical engineering. He joined Harvard University, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), in 2014 as a postdoc fellow after a two-year research appointment at Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (a research institute of Agency for Science, Technology and Research, A*STAR). Currently, he is an assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, in the School of Medicine (Clinical Research Unit and Orthopedic Research Center) where he leads a research team with multidisciplinary background including engineering, pharmaceutical sciences and medicine. He is recipient of many prestigious national and international awards including Iran’s National Elite Foundation Award (2020) and Mustafa-Kanz Prize (2022). Currently, he serves as a board member of National Institute for Medical Research Development (NIMAD) that is the leading funding agency for medical research grant in Iran. Dr. Shaegh is also an entrepreneur. He is co-founder and CEO of Nanosynthes Co. which is manufacturer of instruments for the production of drug nanocarriers based on microfluidic technology. Mousavi’s research interests are mainly focused on design, fabrication, and testing of medical devices and implants, as well as microfluidic systems for diagnostics, drug synthesis and testing
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Nov 2016-Present) Orthopedic Research Center, Ghaem Hospital, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Center for Development of Clinical Investigations, Ghaem Hospital, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
- Research Fellow (Feb 2016-Nov 2016) Orthopedic Research Center, Ghaem Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
- Postdoctoral Fellow (May 2014-Feb 2016) Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Division of Engineering in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02139 Research topics: Microfluidic organs-on-chip with integrated sensors for drug screening; Electrochemical biosensors; Additive manufacturing technologies for fabrication of organ constructs Supervisor: Prof. Ali Khademhosseini
- Research Scientist (June 2012-April 2014) Division of Microfluidic Manufacturing at Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), A research institute of Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
- Ph.D. (August 2008- June 2012) School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Advisors: Prof. Nam-Trung Nguyen and Prof. Chan Siew Hwa