Sangeeta is a biomedical researcher, MIT professor, and biotech entrepreneur who works to adapt technologies developed in the computer industry for medical innovation.

As a prolific inventor and passionate advocate for diversity in science and engineering, Bhatia has received many honors including the Lemelson-MIT Prize, known as the ‘Oscar for inventors,’ and the Heinz Medal for groundbreaking inventions and advocacy for women in STEM fields. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, the Director for both the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine and Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies, as well as John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

She is a Co-founder of Satellite Bio, Glympse Bio, and Hepregen.