Martin Yarmush

Key takeaways

Martin Yarmush belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Martin Yarmush to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Martin Yarmush from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Martin (Maish) L. Yarmush (born October 8, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York) is an academic, American scientist, physician, and engineer known for his work in biotechnology and bioengineering. His faculty career began in 1984 at MIT in the Department of Chemical Engineering as a Principal Research Associate (Associate Research Professor) and Lucille P. Markey Scholar in Biomedical Science . In 1988 he joined Rutgers University, as Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and a member of the Center of Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine. In 1995, he returned to the Boston area to serve as the Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and to establish the Center for Engineering in Medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Teaching Hospitals. In 2007 he returned to Rutgers to hold the Paul and Mary Monroe Endowed Chair in Science and Engineering and serve as Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He also holds a Lecturer in Surgery and Bioengineering position at Harvard Medical School, and is a member of the Senior Scientific Staff at the Shriners children's hospital in Boston. Yarmush is the founding editor of the Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering which was first published in 1999 by the nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews. He is a series editor for the book series Frontiers In Nanobiomedical Research. In 2015 Yarmush was elected as a member of the National Academy of Inventors, and in 2017, Yarmush was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering "for pioneering advances in cellular, tissue, and organ engineering and for leadership in applying metabolic engineering to human health."

Education Yarmush attended the Hebrew Institute of Boro Park (Yeshivat Etz Chaim), Yeshiva University of High School of Brooklyn (BTA), Yeshiva University, The Rockefeller University, Yale University School of Medicine, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Career Yarmush has worked as a professor at MIT, Harvard, and Rutgers and has held adjunct positions at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. He is known for his scholarly contributions to many areas of biotechnology and bioengineering; and for the many students and fellows that he has trained who have gone on to significant academic and industrial careers. He also serves as the founding director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Rutgers Predoctoral Biotechnology Training Program which has received continuous financial support from the NIH for 34 years. Yarmush is also the founding director of the Center for Engineering in Medicine & Surgery (CEMS) based at the Massachusetts General Hospital. The center was established in 1995 with faculty based at several Harvard Medical School-Affiliated Teaching Hospitals (Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Beth Israel Hospital) in coordination with MIT, Harvard University, and Boston's Shriners Hospitals for Children, and with support from the Whitaker Foundation. At the time, Yarmush was the Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and at Harvard Medical School. Yarmush currently holds the Paul and Mary Endowed Chair in Science and Engineering at Rutgers University and also serves as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He also holds a Bioengineer position at the Massachusetts General Hospital, a Lecturer in Surgery and Bioengineering position at Harvard Medical School, and a Senior Scientific Staff position at the Shriners Children's, Boston.

Research Yarmush has published over 580 peer-reviewed articles with ~ 50,000 citations and an H-index of 112 (Google Scholar). Yarmush has filed patent applications for more than 60 inventions in medical and technical fields and is a member of the National Academy of Inventors. He has worked on wound healing, metabolic engineering, dynamic microfabricated cell and tissue systems, biomedical devices, cell therapies, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, including the development of non-invasive treatments to prevent scarring after burns. Yarmush has led a team that has developed storage protocols that can increase the amount of time that a donor organ can be stored and still be viable for use in human transplant operations. Yarmush has led development of a robot for drawing blood samples which can be analyzed with a point-of-care downstream processing and analysis system. This device could decrease the most frequent type of clinical injuries for both patients and hospital staff, and provide immediate results to doctors. The venipuncture robot has been recently tested in a human clinical trial.

Awards 2022, The Sackler Scholar, Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2020, Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award, Rutgers U 2018, Lady Davis Visiting Faculty Fellow and Institute Lecturer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 2017, Fellow, US National Academy of Engineering 2015, Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award from the Board of Directors of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 2015, Fellow, US National Academy of Inventors 2013, Top 20 Translational Researchers, Nature Biotechnology 2011, Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Division Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 2009, Distinguished University Visiting Professor, Michigan State University 2009, Keynote Speaker, ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference 2006, NIH Career Enhancement Award for Stem Cell Research 2006, Fellow, New Jersey High Tech Hall of Fame 2005, AIChE 15d/e Plenary Lecture 2004, Award for Programmatic Excellence in Undergraduate Education, Rutgers University 2001, AIChE 15c Plenary Lecture 1997, Bernard Revel Memorial Award in Arts & Sciences, Yeshiva University 1993, Founding Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering 1992, Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, Rutgers University 1989, NIH Research Career Development Award (1989-94) 1988, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1988-93) 1985, Lucille P. Markey Scholar Award in Biomedical Science (1985-1992)

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Martin Yarmush

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Martin Yarmush claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Martin Yarmush before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Martin Yarmush ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Martin Yarmush

In research: Martin Yarmush appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Martin Yarmush in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Martin Yarmush is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1952 births, Annual Reviews (publisher) editors, Engineers from Brooklyn, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Martin Yarmush outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

How to study Martin Yarmush in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Martin Yarmush means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Martin Yarmush out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Martin Yarmush in simple terms?

Martin (Maish) L. Yarmush (born October 8, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York) is an academic, American scientist, physician, and engineer known for his work in biotechnology and bioengineering.

Why does Martin Yarmush matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Martin Yarmush?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Martin Yarmush.