Savoji, Houman

Dr. Houman Savoji is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the University of Montreal and a Principal Investigator at the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre. He is also a Montreal TransMedTech Institute Research Chair in regenerative medicine, organs-on-chips and 3D bioprinting.

He was a CIHR and FRQNT Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal at the University of Montreal, Canada.

His primary research interest lies in the general area of Advanced BioManufacturing with particular emphasize on Micro- and Nano-fabrication of Functional Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Applications. His research focus is to design, develop, optimize, implement and characterize novel functional biomaterials and devices/platforms by utilizing emerging engineering technologies including 3D Bioprinting, Microfluidics and Electrospinning for one of the most highly demanding markets in the engineering and medical disciplines.