Maryam Tabrizian

Maryam Tabrizian is an Iranian-born Canadian engineer. A 2010 Guggenheim Fellow, she is Professor of the McGill University Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Biography Maryam Tabrizian was born in Rudsar, a city in Gilan province, Iran, and obtained her bachelor's degree in applied chemistry at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 1980. She later started working at McGill University, where became a professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and at the Faculty of Dentistry and was director of the 's Centre for Biorecognition and Biosensors from 2002 until 2011. In 2011, she became the editor-in-chief of the materials science journal Materials. In 2022, she became the first editor-in-chief of biomaterials journal Exploration of BioMat-X.

In the early-2010s, Tabrizian was elected a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2017. In October 2019, she was appointed Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Regenerative Medicine and Nanomedicine. She won the Network for Oral and Bone Health Research's 2020-2021 CP Leblond Award. She is also a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and an American Dental Education Association Leadership Institute Fellow.