Mehmet Toner

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Mehmet Toner
Born	July, 1958 Istanbul, Turkey
Residence	U.S.
Fields	Cryobiology, Biomedical Engineering
Institutions	Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Istanbul Technical University
Doctoral advisor	Ernest G. Cravalho
Doctoral students	John Bischof, Professor, Minnesota; Sangeeta Bhatia, Associate Professor, MIT; Ulysses J. Balis, Associate Professor, Univ. Michigan; Albert Folch, Associate Professor, University of Washington (Seattle)
Notable awards	ASME YC Fung Faculty Award in Bioengineering, 1994; Whitaker Foundation Special Opportunity Award, 1995; Taplin Faculty Fellow Award given by Harvard and MIT, 1997; Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering

Mehmet Toner, PhD is a world renowned cryobiologist and a professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School and professor of biomedical engineering at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST). Toner first gained prominence for his theory of intra-cellular ice formation while finishing his PhD at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT). Since then Prof. Toner has made valuable contributions to the specific fields of cryobiology and biopreservation and to the wider field of biomedical engineering in the form of thirteen patented inventions, numerous book chapters, over 200 journal publications, and over 350 scientific presentations.

Toner was born in Istanbul, Turkey in July, 1958. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Istanbul Technical University in 1983, and his master’s degree and doctorate in Mechanical Engineering and Medical Engineering at MIT in 1989. Toner worked on his doctorate under Prof. Ernest Cravalhowho is widely known as one of the founders of the field of cryobiology and is still a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT.

Currently located at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Shriners Hospital for Children, the Center for Engineering in Medicine(CEM)is regarded as one of the finest biomedical research groups in the world. Dr. Toner currently serves as its Associate Director, as well as the Director of the CEM-affiliated BioMEMS Resource Center. The group has produced researchers that occupy prominent positions in academia and industry, and continues to train post-doctoral fellows and graduate students from MIT and Harvard University. Dr. Toner is known to some fondly as "Turkish Guy".