Fireside Chat with Donald Ingber

Join us for a conversation with the inventor of the human Organ-on-a-Chip & a pioneer of bioinspired engineering. 

Donald Ingber is the founding director of the Wyss Institute at Harvard, one of the world's leading centers for biologically inspired engineering, where he leads hundreds of researchers drawing inspiration from the way nature builds to create technologies that improve human health, spinning out dozens of startups along the way. A physician and bioengineer trained at Yale, he is best known for inventing the human Organ-on-a-Chip, tiny devices lined with living human cells that function like real organs and have transformed how scientists study disease and test new medicines. That breakthrough became the foundation of Emulate, the company he founded that now brings organs-on-chips to labs and drug developers around the world.

In this fireside chat, Donald Ingber will share what a lifetime spent inventing at the border of biology and engineering has taught him: how nature's own designs can solve humanity's hardest problems, why the greatest breakthroughs come from connecting fields no one thought to combine, and where bioinspired science is taking the future of medicine. Whether you are drawn to science, engineering, medicine, or entrepreneurship, this is a rare chance to learn from one of the most inventive minds of our time.