Youseph Yazdi is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the Whiting School of Engineering and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He also serves as executive director of the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design and program director of the Wallace H. Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program.
Yazdi is an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow and a recipient of the Johnson & Johnson Standards of Leadership Award. Prior to his arrival at Johns Hopkins, Yazdi was a corporate director in Johnson & Johnson’s Corporate Office of Science and Technology, where he was responsible for the creation and management of external and internal partnerships that funded and guided early-stage health care innovation.
He holds a BS in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University, as well as an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in biomedical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He also earned an MBA in entrepreneurial management from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.
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“We are pleased to continue helping Whiting School of Engineering faculty advance their cutting-edge research,” says Neil Cohen, who is also the founder of venture capital firm Emerald Development Managers.