Mark Skylar Scott, PhD

Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Stanford University at Stanford University

Speaker

Mark Skylar-Scott received his B.A. and M.Eng. degrees in Engineering at the University of Cambridge in 2007. For his doctoral thesis under the guidance of Prof. M. Fatih Yanik at MIT, he developed multiphoton photopatterning techniques to print full length proteins on 2D surfaces and in 3D scaffolds to probe and direct neural and vascular growth. For his postdoctoral research at Harvard and the Wyss Institute with Prof. Jennifer Lewis, he performed 3D bioprinting of thick and vascularized tissues, and created new high-throughput multimaterial multinozzle 3D printing systems. Mark is now an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford, a member of the BASE Initiative at the Children’s Heart Center and a Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. He received the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award in 2022 towards his goals to develop new 3D printing hardware, wetware, and software to accelerate cardiovascular tissue engineering towards thick, vascularized, and functionally therapeutic organs.