Sangeeta N. Bhatia, an Indian-origin scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who has developed artificial human microlivers for drug testing, has won a prestigious USD 250,000 Heinz award for her work in tissue engineering and disease detection.

She has been named the recipient of the 2015 Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy, and Employment.

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• The award includes an unrestricted prize of USD 250,000.
• Bhatia’s team has pioneered the fabrication of artificial human microlivers, which are being used by many biopharmaceutical companies to test the toxicity of drug candidates.
• Bhatia will receive her award on May 13 at a ceremony in Pittsburgh.
• She will be honoured along with the Heinz Award recipients in the four other categories.
• About Sangeeta N. Bhatia:
  •  Sangeeta is an Indian American biological engineer and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
  • In 2003, she was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.
  • She was also named a “Scientist to Watch” by The Scientist in 2006, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator in 2008
  • Bhatia co-authored the first undergraduate textbook on tissue engineering and was an editor for two books, Microdevices in Biology and Medicine and Biosensing.
•   About Heinz award
  •  The Heinz Awards are individual achievement honors given annually by the Heinz Family Foundation.
  • The award was established in 1993 by Teresa Heinz.
  • The five award recipients each receive an unrestricted prize of US$250,000 and a cast silver medallion.
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