She is also a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

[4] Elisseeff attended Carnegie Mellon University for her undergraduate education in chemistry with a focus on polymer science.

[5] She then undertook doctoral studies in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology under the mentorship of Robert Langer.

She was originally hired by Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor with joint appointments in biomedical engineering and orthopedic surgery in 2003.

In 2018, she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for "development and commercial translation of injectable biomaterials for regenerative therapies.