Prof. Ellen Roche
Latham Family Career Development Professor,
Department Medical Engineering and Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prof. Ellen Roche
Latham Family Career Development Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ellen is the Latham Family Career Development Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. She directs the Therapeutic Technology Design and Development Lab. Her research focuses on applying innovative technologies to the development of cardiac devices. Her research includes development of novel devices to repair or augment cardiac function using disruptive approaches such as soft robotics. Her work has been published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, Science Translational Medicine, Science Robotics and Advanced Materials among others. She is the recipient of multiple awards including the Wellcome Trust Seed Award in Science, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an NIH Trailblazer Award, a Hood Award for Excellence in Child Health Research, the LabCentral Ignite Golden Ticket, the inaugural Future Founders Grand Prize and the Harold E. Edgerton Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievements at MIT.