The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study selected Professor Zreiqat from more than 1300 international applications worldwide.
The University of Sydney professor who specialises in developing engineered biomaterials and scaffolds for skeletal tissue applications, and investigating their effect on in vitro and in vivo bone, cartilage and tendon regeneration says her goal is to create scaffolding materials that mirror nature.
With the aid of 3D technology she has developed a unique ceramic material that acts as a scaffold on which the body can regenerate new bone, and then gradually degrades as it is replaced by natural bone.
The work has direct implications for the millions of people suffering bone loss due to injury, infection, disease or abnormal skeletal development.
Professor Zreiqat leads a team of researchers studying bone, cartilage and endothelial cell biology and how it reacts when in contact with engineered biomaterials.
Professor Zreiqat will spend an academic year at Harvard interacting with a diverse range of fellows selected from an extensive international pool of applicants and representing a variety of disciplines.
