Pinar Zorlutuna,
Sheehan Family Collegiate Professor of Engineering
Pinar Zorlutuna is the Sheehan Family Collegiate Professor of Engineering in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, and in Bioengineering Graduate Program at the University of Notre Dame. Her research explores designing biomimetic environments for understanding and controlling cell behavior, and cell-cell and cell-environment interactions using tissue engineering, genetic engineering and micro- and nanofabrication approaches. Dr. Zorlutuna received her PhD in Biotechnology Program from a joint project between Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) and Interdisciplinary Research Center in Biomedical Materials, Queen Mary University of London (London, UK). Her PhD work focused on biomimetic tissue engineering towards fabricating a functional blood vessel tissue through 3D tubular co-culture of vascular cell types using nanopatterned scaffolds. In her first postdoctoral fellowship with Rashid Bashir at UIUC, she worked on utilization of stereolithography for engineering microfabricated 3D neuro-muscular tissue as a first step towards engineering cell-based soft robots or “Bio-bots”. After that, she led Khademhosseini Lab’s Tissue Engineering Subgroup at the joint Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and Center for Biomedical Engineering at Harvard Medical School, working on various projects and supervising a group of about ten researchers of different educational levels and backgrounds. Her research has been published in high impact journals such as Advanced Science, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Science Advances and Circulation Research. She received various awards including NSF CAREER Award and PECASE.
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