Elazer Edelman, MD, PhD is the Scientific Co-Founder of PanTher Therapeutics. In addition to his role at PanTher, Elazer is the Edward J. Poitras Professor in Medical Engineering and Science at MIT, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Senior Attending Physician in the coronary care unit at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Key Opinion Leader in local drug delivery and implantable devices, Elazer serves as an advisor for the FDA and several companies in the medical device industry and has been instrumental in propelling several multiple devices from conceptualization to clinical realization. He also directs MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) and Clinical Research Center (CRC) as well as the Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center (BMEC) – all dedicated to applying the rigors of the physical sciences to elucidate fundamental biologic processes and mechanisms of disease.
Elazer holds an MD from Harvard Medical School, PhD in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics from MIT, MS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from MIT, and BS in Bioelectrical Engineering and in Applied Biology from MIT.