Jason Gleghorn's Biography

Jason Gleghorn, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware

Dr. Jason Gleghorn earned a Ph.D. in soft tissue mechanics and tissue engineering from Cornell University (Lawrence Bonnassar & Abe Stroock) and subsequently completed postdoctoral fellowships in microfluidics and molecular and developmental biology and at Cornell University (Brian Kirby) and Princeton University (Celeste Nelson) respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware. Dr. Gleghorn holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Biological Sciences and he is the Director of the Tissue Morphodynamics and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory. His lab develops and uses microfluidic and microfabrication technologies to determine how cells behave and communicate within multicellular populations to form complex 3D tissues and organs. These techniques in combination with studies of the native cellular behaviors and interactions in the embryo are used to define new therapeutic approaches for regenerative medicine. Dr. Gleghorn is the recipient of the March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Award, the ORAU Ralph E. Powe Award, the University of Delaware Bernard Canavan Early Career Research Award, and he has been named a Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Rising Star from the Biomedical Engineering Society and a Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering from the CMBE journal.