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 
- Fibrous hyaluronic acid hydrogels that direct MSC chondrogenesis through mechanical and adhesive cues, Kim, I.L. | Khetan, S. | Baker, B.M. | Chen, C.S. | Burdick, J.A., Biomaterials, 2013
- Integration and regression of implanted engineered human vascular networks during deep wound healing, Hanjaya-Putra, D. | Shen, Y.-I. | Wilson, A. | Fox-Talbot, K. | Khetan, S. | Burdick, J.A. | Steenbergen, C. | Gerecht, S., Stem Cells Translational Medicine, 2013
- Fiber alignment directs cell motility over chemotactic gradients, Sundararaghavan, H.G. | Saunders, R.L. | Hammer, D.A. | Burdick, J.A., Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 2013
- Engineering synthetic hydrogel microenvironments to instruct stem cells, Guvendiren, M. | Burdick, J.A., Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2013
- Acellular biomaterials: An evolving alternative to cell-based therapies, Burdick, J.A. | Mauck, R.L. | Gorman, J.H. | Gorman, R.C., Science Translational Medicine, 2013