Sharon Gerecht, the Kent Gordon Croft Investment Management Faculty Scholar, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and director of the Institute for NanoBioTechnology, was elected to the 2019 class of the National Academy of Medicine.
Gerecht, whose research focuses on stem cells and their microenvironment, especially as applied to tissue repair and regeneration, was recognized for her “seminal studies on the interactions between stem cells and their microenvironments and for engineering artificial cell microenvironments capable of guiding vascular differentiation, delivery, and regeneration of tissues.”