Venkatram Prasad R. Shastri
University of Freiburg, Germany
2024

Prasad Shastri is the Professor of Biofunctional Macromolecular Chemistry and the Director at the Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry and the BIOSS Professor of Cell Signalling Environments at the University of Freiburg. He received his PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and did post-doctoral work under the mentorship of Prof. Robert Langer at MIT. He has published >230 peer-reviewed articles, extended abstracts, book chapters, and authored over 60 issued/pending patents in materials science, regenerative medicine, and tumor biology and serves as the associate editor, and on the editorial board of prominent peer-reviewed journals. Shastri is an elected member of Sigma Xi.