Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia is a biomedical engineer and physician-scientist whose work has helped bridge laboratory research and clinical medicine. At MIT, she pioneered microfabrication techniques that created more realistic models of human organ function, enabling scientists to study disease and test drugs with greater accuracy. Her innovations advanced pharmaceutical development and regenerative medicine, and she has founded multiple companies to translate her laboratory discoveries into therapeutic applications. Bhatia is widely regarded as a pioneer in tissue engineering and organ-on-chip research.