Sasan Jalili, Ph.D.

 

Sasan Jalili, Ph.D. 

Assistant Professor

  • The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, CT, USA
  • Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut, CT, USA
  • Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut, CT, USA
  • Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, CT, USA

Sasan Jalili is an Assistant Professor at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine and The University of Connecticut. His research is focused on the application of engineering tools to problems in cellular immunology and the development of microengineered models of human (patho)physiology for multiple biomedical applications. Current efforts are focused on interrogating the immune-microbiome crosstalk in infectious diseases, autoimmunity, aging, and cancer.

Training and Education

 Postdoctoral Training (2019-2023) Advisors: Prof. Darrell Irvine, Prof. Paula Hammond, Prof. Sarah Fortune

 Doctoral Training (2015-2019), Ph.D. in Bioengineering, Advisors: Prof. Donald Ingber, Prof. Joaquim Cabral

 Predoctoral Training (2006-2015), M.S. and B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Advisors: Prof. Ivan Martin, Prof. Hossein Baharvand

University Hospital Basel (Switzerland), Department of Biomedicine, ICFS
-Royan Institute (Iran), Department of Stem Cells and Developmental Biology
-Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic, Iran)
-M.S. in Biomedical Engineering
-B.S. in Biomedical Engineering
-B.S. in Polymer Engineering

Awards and Honor

 -NIH Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA), NIAID, Training Program in AIDS-related Research (2022-2024)
 –Ludwig Postdoctoral Fellowship, Koch Institute, MIT (2022-2023)
 –Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program (Academic teaching, course design and communication skills), MIT (2022)
 -Stanley (1958) and Bonnie Klein Research Travel Award, Immunoengineering Gordon Research Conference (2022)
 -ERA21 Travel Award, Summer School on Innovative Approaches in Science (2022)
 –Convergence Scholarship (Professional development- leadership and communication skills), Koch Institute, MIT (2021-2022)
 -Ruth and William Silen Award for Exceptional Scientific Presentation, Harvard Medical School (2019)
 –Lush Prize, Young Researcher Americas (2018)