Jeff Karp, PhD, a professor and fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, is biomedical engineer at Harvard Medical School who has dedicated his lab to the process of bioinspired medical problem solving. He is the distinguished chairperson in clinical anesthesiology, perioperative, and pain medicine and professor of anesthesia at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also a principal faculty member at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and an affiliate faculty member at the Broad Institute and at MIT through the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed papers, with over 27,000 citations, and holds more than 100 issued or pending national and international patents. His lab’s technologies include a drug treatment for the most common form of hearing loss, a tissue glue that can seal holes inside a beating heart, targeted therapy for osteoarthritis and inflammatory bowel disease, needles that automatically stop when they reach their target, a once-a-day nasal spray to prevent respiratory infections, and immunotherapy approaches to annihilate cancer. |
