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Occupation | Engineer |
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Institutions | McGill University |
Maryam Tabrizian FRSC FCAHS is an Iranian-born Canadian engineer. A 2010 Guggenheim Fellow, she is Professor of the McGill University Department of Biomedical Engineering. [1]
Maryam Tabrizian was born in Rudsar, a city in Gilan province, Iran, and obtained her bachelor's degree in applied chemistry at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 1980. [2] She later moved to Pierre and Marie Curie University, where she obtained her MSc in 1986 and, in a joint program with ESPCI Paris, her PhD in 1990. [3] She later obtained her MBA from HEC Montréal in 1999. [3] She later started working at McGill University, where became a professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and at the Faculty of Dentistry and was director of the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies 's Centre for Biorecognition and Biosensors from 2002 until 2011. [4] [2]
Tabrizian specializes in nanomedicine and regenerative medicine. [2] She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, during which she researched cells' interactions with biomaterial and other cells with the teams of Ali Khademhosseini and Albert Sacco. [2] In 2011, she became the editor-in-chief of the materials science journal Materials . [4] In 2022, she became the first editor-in-chief of biomaterials journal Exploration of BioMat-X. [5]
In the early-2010s, Tabrizian was elected a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering. [4] [6] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2017. [7] In October 2019, she was appointed Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Regenerative Medicine and Nanomedicine. [8] She won the Network for Oral and Bone Health Research's 2020-2021 CP Leblond Award. [9] She is also a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and an American Dental Education Association Leadership Institute Fellow. [10] [11]