Ali Khademhosseini is a Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering at UCLA. He has made seminal contributions to the development of micro/nanoscale technologies, materials and systems for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. He has led the development of approaches for device tissue interfaces, engineering basic living units for regenerative medicine, understanding self-assembly methods of microscale hydrogel structures which are high impact developments that will enable advances in treatment of patients. He has also made important contributions to the development of bioinspired materials for surgical applications and has trained numerous next generation scientists and has inspired students for graduate work.