Jason A. Burdick
Associate Professor
Bioengineering (BE)
Honors and Awards: Edward C. Nagy New Investigator Award - 2011, NSF CAREER Award - 2009
Research Expertise: Tissue Engineering | Bioengineered Therapeutics | Devices and Drug Delivery | Biomaterials
Jason's research interests include developing degradable polymeric biomaterials that can be used for tissue engineering, drug delivery, and fundamental polymer studies. The platform polymer technology involves the development of multifunctional monomers that form degradable crosslinked networks via a radical polymerization. Specific targets of his research include: scaffolding for cell and growth factor delivery in bone and cartilage regeneration; controlling stem cell differentiation and growth factor delivery; and investigating the influence of monomer structure on resulting network macroscopic and microscopic properties.
Member of:- Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM)
- Penn Genome Frontiers Institute (PGFI)
- Center for Engineering Cells and Regeneration (CECR)
Education:
PhD Chemical Engineering 2002 - University of Colorado
BS Chemical Engineering 1998 - University of Wyoming
Recent Publications 
- Stiffening hydrogels to probe short- and long-term cellular responses to dynamic mechanics, Guvendiren, M. , Burdick, J.A., Nature Communications, 2012
- Improved cartilage repair via in vitro pre-maturation of MSC-seeded hyaluronic acid hydrogels, Erickson, I.E. , Kestle, S.R. , Zellars, K.H. , Dodge, G.R. , Burdick, J.A. , ..., Biomedical Materials, 2012
- Patterning hydrogels in three dimensions towards controlling cellular interactions, Khetan, S. , Burdick, J.A., Soft Matter, 2011
- Infarct restraint to limit adverse ventricular remodeling, Gorman, R.C. , Jackson, B.M. , Burdick, J.A. , Gorman, J.H., Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research, 2011
- High-throughput screening of a small molecule library for promoters and inhibitors of mesenchymal stem cell osteogenic differentiation, Brey, D.M. , Motlekar, N.A. , Diamond, S.L. , Mauck, R.L. , Garino, J.P. , ..., Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 2011