Celeste Nelson
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August 21, 1976[1]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SB)
Celeste Nelson | |
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 Nelson speaks at the World Economic Forum in 2017 | |
| Born | Celeste M. Nelson August 21, 1976[1] |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University (PhD) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SB) |
| Awards | Tau Beta Pi Phi Beta Kappa Innovators Under 35 Sloan Research Fellowship Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Developmental biology Tissue engineering Morphogenesis Mechanobiology[2] |
| Institutions | Princeton University Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Thesis | The regulation of endothelial cell form and function by VE-cadherin (2003) |
| Website | cmngroup |
Celeste M. Nelson (born 21 August 1976)[1] is a professor of chemical and biological engineering and the director of the program in engineering biology at Princeton University.[2][3] She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and was a finalist in the 2017 and 2018 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.
Nelson was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado.[1] She became interested in biology as a teenager, but it wasn't until she spent time in a laboratory that she realised how much she enjoyed experiments.[4] She studied biology and chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and graduated in 1998.[5][6] Whilst at MIT Nelson was a member of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honour society and graduated in Phi Beta Kappa. Nelson moved to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for her graduate studies, working on biomedical engineering under the supervision of Christopher S. Chen.[1][7][5]
