Prof. Shashi Murthy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University. He holds secondary appointments as Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering and as Faculty Fellow in the Barnett Institute of Chemical & Biological Analysis at Northeastern University. In addition, Prof. Murthy is a Scientific Investigator at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston. He is also Northeastern’s institutional representative at CIMIT, a consortium of hospitals and universities dedicated to the integration of medicine and innovative technology.
Currently and through calendar year 2013, Prof. Murthy is a Visiting Scientist at Children’s Hospital, Boston where he is on sabbatical at the laboratory of Prof. George Daley developing new projects in the broad area of stem cell biology.
Prof. Murthy is the recipient of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s CAREER award (2008) and the Søren Buus Award for Outstanding Research in Engineering at Northeastern University (2009).
Prof. Murthy joined the Northeastern faculty in August 2005 following postdoctoral training under the guidance of Profs. Mehmet Toner and Martin Yarmush on the microfluidic separation of lymphocyte subpopulations. His doctoral work at MIT on vapor-deposited insulating coatings for neuroprosthetic devices was carried out under the direction of Prof. Karen Gleason. He was promoted to Associate Professor and granted tenure in 2011. Prof. Murthy served as Associate Chair of the Chemical Engineering Department from August-December 2011 and as Acting Chair from January-August 2012. |
