”DR. LOZA TADEESE - DISCOVERY”

"Discovery"

Dr. Loza Tadesse

www.tadesselab.mit.edu

How does a girl growing up in Ethiopia discover her intellectual gifts that one day lead her to Stanford and MIT? This is the story of Dr. Loza Tadesse, a story of faith, family, friendship; and a process that led from the Horn of Africa to the upper midwestern region of America, to the sunny west coast, and the Northeast. A journey where the tiniest observations may influence the future of humanity.

 

Dr. Loza Tadesse is an assistant professor at MIT in the Department of Mechanical Engineering . She is the Principal Investigator for The Tadesse Lab at MIT. She received her PhD in bioengineering from Stanford University and was a medical student at St. Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College in Ethiopia. She is listed as a 2022 Forbes "30 Under 30" in health care, received many awards including the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Career Development Award, the Stanford DARE Fellowship, and the Gates Foundation “Call to Action” $200,000 grant for SciFro Inc., an educational nonprofit in Ethiopia, which she co-founded. She is married to Dr. Iwnetim Abate. They have one daughter, Mary.