Avanish Mishra

Avanish Mishra, PhD, received his BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), India, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, where he contributed to the development of a microfluidic optoelectrical tweezers technology. Dr. Mishra joined the Center as a postdoctoral fellow in March 2017 under the mentorship of Prof. Mehmet Toner and was promoted to Instructor in Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in 2020.

Dr. Mishra’s research is focused on developing translational tools at the intersection of engineering and medicine, with emphasis on liquid biopsy, cell therapy manufacturing, large scale microfluidics, and high-throughput cell sorting. He has more than 15 publications spanning PNAS, Trends in Biotechnology, Physical Review Fluids, Lab on a Chip, and ACS Nano.