Jason Burdick, Bowman Endowed Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

Jason A. Burdick, PhD is the Bowman Endowed Professor in the BioFrontiers Institute and Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. He spent his academic career in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania from 2005 to 2021 before moving his group to Boulder in 2022. Dr. Burdick’s research involves the design of new biomaterials that can be processed through fabrication methodologies to meet the needs of medicine, ranging from translational therapeutics to tissue models. Jason currently has over 320 peer-reviewed publications and he is on the editorial boards of Journal of Biomedical Materials Research A, Biofabrication, Advanced Healthcare Materials, Advanced NanoBiomed Research, and International Journal of Bioprinting. He has been recognized through numerous awards such as a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, an American Heart Association Established Investigator Award, and the Clemson Award for Basic Science through the Society for Biomaterials. Jason has also been elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, to the International College of Fellows of Biomaterials Science and Engineering, as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and as an International Fellow of The Canadian Academy of Engineering. He has founded several companies to translate the technology from his laboratory into clinical therapeutics.