Elazer R. Edelman

Elazer R. Edelman
Residence	United States
Citizenship	American
Fields	Biomedical Engineering Cardiology Vascular Biology
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women's Hospital
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B., S.M., Ph.D.) Harvard Medical School (M.D.)
Doctoral advisor	Robert S. Langer
Other academic advisors	Morris J. Karnovsky
Known for	Atherosclerotic arterial disease, vascular biology, drug delivery

Elazer R. Edelman is an American engineer, scientist, and cardiologist. He is the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), and a practicing cardiologist at BWH. At MIT, he is the director of the Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center and MIT Clinical Research Center, and is the Program Director of the MIT Graduate Education in Medical Sciences program within the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. At BWH, he serves as a senior attending physician in the coronary care unit. He is currently the Chief Scientific Advisor for the journal Science Translational Medicine. Edelman has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Inventors, National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine.

Edelman was raised in the greater Boston area. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and in Applied Biology, and a master's degree in EECS. He earned his M.D. degree with distinction from Harvard Medical School and Ph.D. in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics within the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. He conducted his Ph.D. thesis work under the direction of Robert Langer to define the mathematics of regulated and controlled drug delivery. Edelman completed his medical training at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is board certified in internal medicine and cardiology. Following this, he spent six years as a research fellow under the tutelage of Prof. Morris J. Karnovsky to work on the biology of vascular repair. Edelman and his wife, Cheryl, have 3 children: Alex, A.J., and Austin.

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