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Dr. Sasisekharan has been a professor of Biological Engineering at MIT since 1996 and Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Biological Engineering & Health Sciences and Technology. He served as Director of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology from 2008 to 2012. His research on complex polysaccharides has led to over 125 publications and over 50 patents. He is a founder of Momenta Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: MNTA), Cerulean Pharma, and Visterra Pharmaceuticals. He has won both the Burroughs Wellcome and Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Awards; was the recipient of the 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001 CaPCure Awards from the CaPCure Foundation; was honored with the Princess Chulabhorn Gold Medal Award in 2007; and received a National Institutes of General Medical Sciences MERIT Award in 2010. He received his B.S. in Physical Sciences from Bangalore University, his M.S. in Biophysics from Harvard University, and his Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from Harvard Medical School.