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Krishanu Saha

Krishanu Saha

Professor
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My interests lie in using human stem cells together with emerging engineering methods in material science and synthetic biology to make smarter therapeutics, model human disease, and advance personalized medicine.

Department

Biomedical Engineering

Contact

4164, Wi Inst For Discovery
333 N Randall Ave
Madison, WI
p: (608) 316-4313

  • Personalized and Regenerative Medicine
  • Biomaterials Engineering
  • Stem Cell Biology
  • Developmental Biology
  • Signal transduction
  • Systems biology
  • Synthetic biology
  • Evolution & optimization of signaling proteins and networks
  • Design principles of spatial and temporal control networks in cells

  • 2024 STAT, STAT “Who to Know” in Therapeutic Gene Editing
  • 2023 National Academy of Medicine, Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine, Invited Panelist
  • 2023 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship
  • 2022 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow, Class of 2022
  • 2019 Retina Research Foundation, Kathryn and Latimer Murfee Chair
  • 2018 Gund-Harrington Scholar Award
  • 2016 Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator
  • 2016 NIH, NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA)
  • 2014 NSF, NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
  • 2014 Biomedical Engineering Society, CMBE, Young Innovator Award
  • 2013 NIH, NIH mHealth Summer Institute Scholar
  • 2013 BMES’s Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering SIG, Rising Star Award
  • 2013 Frontiers in Bioengineering Workshop, Young Investigator Award
  • 2012 Sage Bionetworks, Young Investigator Award
  • 2009 Society in Science: Branco Weiss Fellowship
  • 2009 Ruth Kirschstein Individual Postdoctoral National Research Service (F32) Award (declined)
  • 2008 Whitehead Institute, Whitehead Institute Educational Award
  • 2006 First Place in Science, Technology, and Engineering Policy White Paper Competition
  • 2006 Bay Area Neuroscience Gathering, Outstanding poster presentation
  • 2005 Graduate Research & Education in Adaptive bioTechnology (GREAT) , Graduate Research & Education in Adaptive bioTechnology (GREAT) Training Grant
  • 2005 Materials Research Society, Graduate Student Award from Materials Research Society (Silver)
  • 2003 Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship Finalist (Nominated)
  • 2001 Fulbright, J. William Fulbright Graduate Student Award for United Kingdom (declined)
  • 2001 Winston Churchill Scholarship
  • 2000 Barry F. Goldwater Scholarship
  • 1999 BP Amoco Research Prize
  • 1999 Materials Research Society, Undergraduate Materials Research Initiative Award
  • 1998 Xerox Technical Minority Scholarship
  • National Science Foundation, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (deferred for 2002-05)

  • Lizana-Vasquez, G. D., Mendez-Vega, J., Cappabianca, D., Saha, K., & Torres-Lugo, M. (2024). In vitro encapsulation and expansion of T and CAR-T cells using 3D synthetic thermo-responsive matrices. RSC Advances, 14(20), 13734-13747 https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ra01968g

  • B M E 399 - Independent Study (Spring 2025)
  • B M E 520 - Stem Cell Bioengineering (Spring 2025)
  • B M E 890 - Pre-dissertation Research (Spring 2025)
  • B M E 990 - Research and Thesis (Spring 2025)
  • PATH 990 - Research (Spring 2025)
  • B M E 399 - Independent Study (Fall 2024)
  • B M E 606 - Special Topics in Biomaterials, Cellular and Tissue Engineering (Fall 2024)
  • B M E 890 - Pre-dissertation Research (Fall 2024)
  • B M E 990 - Research and Thesis (Fall 2024)
  • PATH 990 - Research (Fall 2024)
  • B M E 799 - Advanced Independent Study (Summer 2024)
  • B M E 890 - Pre-dissertation Research (Summer 2024)
  • B M E 990 - Research and Thesis (Summer 2024)
  • PATH 990 - Research (Summer 2024)
  • B M E 399 - Independent Study (Spring 2024)
  • B M E 520 - Stem Cell Bioengineering (Spring 2024)
  • B M E 799 - Advanced Independent Study (Spring 2024)
  • B M E 890 - Pre-dissertation Research (Spring 2024)
  • B M E 990 - Research and Thesis (Spring 2024)
  • MOL BIOL 699 - Directed Studies in Molecular Biology (Spring 2024)
  • PATH 990 - Research (Spring 2024)
  • B M E 399 - Independent Study (Fall 2023)
  • B M E 602 - Special Topics in Biomedical Engineering (Fall 2023)
  • B M E 890 - Pre-dissertation Research (Fall 2023)
  • B M E 990 - Research and Thesis (Fall 2023)
  • MOL BIOL 699 - Directed Studies in Molecular Biology (Fall 2023)
  • PATH 990 - Research (Fall 2023)
  • B M E 799 - Advanced Independent Study (Summer 2023)
  • B M E 890 - Pre-dissertation Research (Summer 2023)
  • B M E 990 - Research and Thesis (Summer 2023)
  • INTEGSCI 299 - Independent Study (Summer 2023)
  • PATH 990 - Research (Summer 2023)