STEM Day

KEYNOTE Speaker

Jason P. Gleghorn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Delaware

Democratizing discovery: why the next big research breakthrough might come from you

Dr. Jason Gleghorn is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Biological Sciences at the University of Delaware. He earned a Ph.D. in soft tissue mechanics and tissue engineering from Cornell University and then completed postdoctoral fellowships in microfluidics and molecular and developmental biology at Cornell University and Princeton University, respectively. Dr. Gleghorn leads an interdisciplinary laboratory focused on advancing clinical therapies for women’s health, pregnancy, cancer, and preterm birth using machine learning and organ-on-chip technologies. Dr. Gleghorn is the co-founder of two companies spun out from research conducted in his lab. He has received national and international recognition for his work, including the March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Award, the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Rising Star Award, the Michael Bowman Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award, and the Gerard J. Mangone Young Scholar Award from the Francis Alison Society. Additionally, Dr. Gleghorn is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, and he has been named a Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering.

EDUCATION

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Princeton University
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Sibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
• Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, WPI

RESEARCH AREAS

• Microfluidics
• Microfabrication-based approaches to regenerative medicine
• Dynamics of multicellular systems
• Mechanics and dynamics of morphogenesis
• Mechanotransduction