Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert
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Shelly E. Sakiyama-Elbert is an American biomedical engineer whose research involves neural stem cell transplantation for neuroregeneration after spinal cord injury. She is a professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington College of Engineering, and vice dean for research and graduate education in the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Sakiyama-Elbert is originally from Southern California.[1] She studied chemical engineering and biology as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1996. She went to the California Institute of Technology for graduate study in chemical engineering, earning a master's degree in 1998 and completing her Ph.D. in 2000.[2]
As a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis, Sakiyama-Elbert co-directed the Center for Regenerative Medicine,[3] at the Washington University School of Medicine and became the associate chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering.[4] She moved to the Cockrell School of Engineering in 2016 as chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering.[1] In 2022, she moved to her present position at the University of Washington,[3] together with her husband, Alzheimer's disease researcher Donald Elbert.[5]
