Linda Gay Griffith is the School of Engineering Teaching Innovation Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering and MacVicar Fellow at MIT, where she directs the Center for Gynepathology Research. Dr. Griffith has pioneered approaches in tissue engineering, including the first tissue-engineered cartilage in the shape of a human ear, commercialization of the 3DP™ printing process for manufacture of FDA-approved scaffolds, commercialization of the 3D perfused LiverChip for drug development, and synthetic matrices for tissue morphogenesis. She is now establishing the field of physiomimetics, integrating organs-on-chips technologies with systems biology to humanize drug development for the most challenging chronic inflammatory diseases.
She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Inventors, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Radcliffe Fellowship, and several awards from professional societies. She is a 2021 co-recipient of the NAE Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education, recognized for “creating the discipline of Biological Engineering”. Griffith currently serves on the advisory board of the Society for Women’s Health Research and has served on the advisory committee to the director of the National Institutes of Health. At MIT, she led development of the undergraduate major in Biological Engineering (now Course 20). She received her BS from Georgia Tech and PhD from UC Berkeley, both in chemical engineering.