Biography

Dr. Dileep Monie is a teaching fellow for online bioengineering courses at the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He lectures in Biomedical Product Development, Biochemical Engineering and Synthetic Life, Acceptance and Resistance to Innovation, and Tissue Engineering for Clinical Applications. He has also mentored undergraduate biomedical engineering concentrators on campus for their senior design projects. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he provided guidance to Harvard FAS faculty as they transitioned to the virtual classroom.

Dr. Monie earned his bachelor's degree with honors from Harvard University in 2015, while also conducting research at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Massachusetts General Hospital. He then earned both his M.D. and Ph.D. in Immunology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Minnesota, where he served as the MSTP student president and was awarded an NIH/NCI F30 fellowship. This education was complemented with graduate training in artificial intelligence at Stanford University.

Concurrently, Dr. Monie is training as a neurosurgeon at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. His research interests span systems neuroimmunology and regenerative neuroengineering, with a clinical focus in neurosurgical oncology. He is also an advocate for citizen science and the democratization of biology, having served as a founding board member of the Baltimore Under Ground Science Space.