David Beebe's Biography

David Beebe, Claude Bernard Professor of Biomedical Engineering, John D. MacArthur Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

David J. Beebe is the Claude Bernard Professor of Biomedical Engineering, a University of Wisconsin John D. MacArthur Professor and a Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Originally trained in Electrical Engineering, from 2004-2009 he completed a 5 year NIH funded retraining in cell/cancer biology. From 2012-2017 he co-led the Tumor Microenvironment Program in the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center. He has published >350 archived journal articles with >44,000 citations (h-index of 92). David’s current cancer related research interests center on the understanding and application of micro scale cell-based assays to understand cancer biology and response to therapy to improve cancer diagnosis and monitoring. Additional research topics include novel micro scale technology development, infectious disease biology and diagnostics. He has also co-founded several biotechnology companies.