Affiliation: University at Buffalo - State University of New York, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; University at Buffalo - State University of New York, Department of Biomedical Engineering and School of Medicine

Natesh Parashurama, MD PhD is a physician scientist, bioengineer, and full time researcher. He received his BS in chemical and bio engineering from MIT, his MD from University at Buffalo, and his PhD from Rutgers University/ Harvard Medical School. He studied hepatic tissue engineering under Professor Mehmet Toner (Harvard) as an undergraduate at MIT, and after training in General Surgery, for his doctoral thesis, he investigated liver stem cell and tissue engineering, synthetic and gene regulatory biology under Professor Martin L. Yarmush at Rutgers University (Coursework) and Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) (Research). He then studied multimodality molecular imaging, reporter gene imaging, and diagnostics under Professor Sanjiv Gambhir (Stanford). He was an instructor and California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Human Development under Susan Fisher (UCSF) before joining the University at Buffalo, State University of NY in 2016. He has given several invited talks, and he has mentored over 24 undergraduates, 14 graduate students, his researched has been featured on the cover of Stem cells, and he has won a Young investigator award from the International Society of Cell Therapy (ISCT), a best manuscript award from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), and a department mentoring award for mentoring minority students.