Sangeeta Bhatia

About Sangeeta

• She wanted to try biomedical engineering, but it was still a new field, so she reached out to people working in the field to try to figure out which path she wanted to take.
• Her first job was in a water testing lab; she found it boring, but it gave her the laboratory experience she needed to explore more of her options.
• Then she moved onto a biotech company, but she was frustrated by being in a lab all day; she wanted to have more contact with patients.
• Her third job was in artificial organs and nerve regeneration, and it felt like her “Goldilocks” job: her third job was the one that fit just right.
• She now runs a lab of 25 people; they’ve invented nanosensors that can roam the human body and search for diseased cells, pushing forward the science of cancer detection.
• Other things her lab is working on: regenerating human livers using organic 3D printers, and engineering a bacteria that can enter tumors and treat them from the inside.
• In 2003, the MIT Technology Review named her one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.
• But she says that even as far as she’s come, she still struggles with imposter syndrome; the way she overcomes it is by continuing to work hard and celebrate her successes.