Dan Huh's Biography

Dan Huh, Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Wilf Family Term Endowed Chair, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Dan Huh is Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Wilf Family Term Endowed Chair at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a pioneer of “organ-on-a-chip” technology, and his research group at Penn focuses on developing microengineered models of human organs in health and disease for a wide variety of biomedical applications. Dr. Huh has won several honors and awards including the McPherson Distinguished Lectureship, the CRI Technology Impact Award, the John J. Ryan Medal from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Design of the Year Award from London Design Museum, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award, TEDx Fellow, NC3Rs Annual Award, Lifetime Membership from the MOMA, SLAS Innovation Award from the Society for Lab Automation and Screening, Scientific Breakthrough of the Year from American Thoracic Society, Best Publication Award and Best Postdoctoral Award from the Society of Toxicology, Wyss Technology Development Fellowship from Harvard, Distinguished Achievement Award from Michigan, Widmer Award from microTAS, and Horace H. Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.