Shelly E. Sakiyama-Elbert is an American biomedical engineer whose research involves neural stem cell transplantation for neuroregeneration after spinal cord injury.
She went to the California Institute of Technology for graduate study in chemical engineering, earning a master's degree in 1998 and completing her Ph.D. in 2000.
[2] As a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis, Sakiyama-Elbert co-directed the Center for Regenerative Medicine,[3] and became vice dean for research.
[1] In 2022, she moved to her present position at the University of Washington,[3] together with her husband, Alzheimer's disease researcher Donald Elbert.
[2] She is the 2023 recipient of the Senior Scientist Award (Americas) of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society.