Jennifer Lewis awarded James Prize in Science and Technology Integration

Jennifer Lewis, the Hansjorg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has been awarded the 2025 James Prize in Science and Technology Integration by the National Academy of Sciences.

The prize honors “outstanding contributions made by researchers who are able to adopt or adapt information or techniques from outside their fields, and thus integrate knowledge from two or more disciplines to solve a major contemporary challenge not addressable from a single disciplinary perspective.”

At SEAS, Lewis and her team develop the next generation of functional, structural, and living materials, enabling applications ranging from printed electronics to vascularized human tissues. The Lewis Lab integrates multidisciplinary expertise in materials science, soft matter physics, additive manufacturing, bioengineering, and stem cell biology to create new classes of printable materials, multimaterial printheads, and methods of 3D printing and bioprinting.

Lewis and her team have created electrically and ionically conductive inks for printing electronic devices and lithium-ion batteries at the microscale and use stem cell-derived organoids to build perfusable 3D organ-on-chip models and vascularized tissues for drug screening, disease modeling, and therapeutic use.

The James Prize in Science and Technology Integration is presented annually and carries with it a $50,000 prize.

Lewis earned a Sc.D. in Ceramic Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among her many honors, she received the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow Award, the Brunauer and Sosman Awards from the American Ceramic Society, the Langmuir Lecture Award from the American Chemical Society, the Materials Research Society Medal, and a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.