Assistant Professor
University of Washington
Dr. Jenny Robinson is an Assistant Professor in Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine and Mechanical Engineering and Core Faculty in the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Washington. There she holds the Endowed Chair in Women’s Sports Medicine and Lifetime Fitness. Jenny received her B.S. in Bioengineering from Rice University. Afterward, Jenny completed a Whitaker Fellowship at the National University of Singapore. She then completed her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Texas A&M University under the guidance of Dr. Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez. Dr. Robinson conducted postdoctoral research in Biomedical Engineering and Craniofacial Biology at Columbia University, with Dr. Helen Lu and Dr. Sunil Wadhwa, respectively. Her research has been recognized by a NIH NIGMS R35 MIRA award, a Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigator issue award, a AIChE Futures Journal award, and delegate to the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers Symposium. This summer, Dr. Robinson was awarded with a Rosalind Franklin Society/Mary Ann Liebert Award that recognizes the best paper by a woman or underrepresented minority in science in each of the publisher’s 100 peer-reviewed journals.