Elazer Edelman, the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor of Health Sciences at MIT, has been awarded this year’s Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) Career Achievement Award ­for his extraordinary contributions to the field of cardiology.

A lifelong researcher and innovator, Edelman is core member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, director of the Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a senior attending physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He and his students have been credited as some of the key contributors and pioneers of the coronary stent.

His research examining the cellular and molecular mechanisms that produce atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease critically advanced the development and optimization of the first bare-metal stents and subsequent iterations, including drug-eluting stents. His most recent publications have focused on how tissue engineered cells might be used for the local delivery of growth factors and growth inhibitors in the study of the vascular homeostasis and repair, cancer invasiveness and metastases, and the homology between endothelial paracrine and angiocrine regulation in cancer and vascular diseases… Continue reading.