Professor in Residence, Department of Bioengineering
Professor and Chair, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF
Mailcode 2520
415-514-4503
Tejal.Desai@ucsf.edu
For more information, see: https://pharm.ucsf.edu/desai
Research Interests
Dr. Desai’s lab focuses in the area of biomedical micro and nanotechnology for therapeutic delivery. Professor Desai’s research spans multiple disciplines including materials engineering, cell biology, tissue engineering, and drug delivery.
Education
1990 – 1994, Brown University, Sc.B. Biomedical Engineering
1994 – 1998, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Francisco, Ph.D. Bioengineering
Major Awards
1999 MIT’s TR100 Award, Technology Review Magazine’s Top 100 Young Innovators
2000 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
2000 NSF New Century Scholar Award, National Science Foundation
2001 Visionary Science Award, BioMEMS and Nanotechnology Society
2003 ‘”Brilliant 10″ Top Scientists in the Nation, Popular Science
2006 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award, University of California, Berkeley
2010 Dean’s Citation for Excellence in Teaching, University of California, San Francisco
2011 Elected Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
2014 Elected Fellow, BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society) Class of 2014
2015 Elected to the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) Class of 2015
2015 Deans Citation for Excellence in Teaching, UCSF
Professional Experience
1998 – 2001, University of Illinois at Chicago, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering
2002 – 2006, Boston University, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
2002 – 2006, Boston University, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
2006 – 2008, Boston University, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
2005 – present, University of California, San Francisco, Professor, Department of Physiology, Bioengineering Program
2009 – present, University of California, San Francisco, Professor, Department of Bioengineering
and Therapeutic Sciences
2014 – present, University of California, San Francisco, Chair, Department of Bioengineering
and Therapeutic Sciences
2016 – present, Ernest L. Prien Endowed Professorship, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences