16 Facts About Donald Ingber

Donald E Ingber was born on 1956 and is an American cell biologist and bioengineer.

Donald Ingber is the founding director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Donald Ingber is a member of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Inventors, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Donald Ingber is a founder of the emerging fields of biologically inspired engineering.

Donald Ingber has made pioneering contributions to numerous other disciplines including mechanobiology, cytoskeletal biology, extracellular matrix biology, integrin signaling, tumor angiogenesis, tissue engineering, nanobiotechnology, systems biology, and translational medicine.

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Donald Ingber's early scientific work led to the discovery that tensegrity architecture - first described by the architect Buckminster Fuller and the sculptor Kenneth Snelson - is a fundamental design principle that governs how living systems are structured, from individual molecules and cells to whole tissues, organs and organisms.

Donald Ingber's group has since expanded this technology to develop other model organs, including the intestine, kidney, bone marrow, blood-brain barrier, and liver.

In 2012, Donald Ingber's team was awarded a DARPA contract to string together multiple Organ Chips to build an automated human body-on-chips that will recapitulate whole-body physiology.

Donald Ingber has been a member of the Center for Nanoscale Systems and the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at Harvard, as well as the MIT Center for Bioengineering.

In 2009, Donald Ingber was named Founding Director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, which was launched with a $125 million gift— which at the time was the largest philanthropic gift in Harvard's history—from Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss.

Donald Ingber is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Inventors, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Donald Ingber served as a member of the Space Studies Board of the U S National Research Council, which advises the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and National Institute of Medicine, and he chaired its Committee on Space Biology and Medicine.

Donald Ingber has been an external reviewer of multiple NRC reports, including “Plan for the International Space Station, ” “Future Biotechnology Research on the International Space Station, ” "Assessment of Directions in Microgravity and Physical Sciences Research at NASA", and “The Astrophysical Context of Life.

Donald Ingber has served as a consultant to numerous companies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and cosmetics industries, including Merck, Roche, Astrazeneca, Biogen, Chanel, and L'Oreal, among others.

Donald Ingber is an advisory board member for Integrative Biology.

Donald Ingber has been named to multiple Who's Who lists for his diverse contributions including: Science and Engineering, America, the World, Medicine and Healthcare, Business Leaders and Professionals—Honors Edition, and was honored with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.