Professor
Arizona State University
Dr. Sarah Stabenfeldt is a Professor at Arizona State University’s School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering. She received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Saint Louis University and her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Her current research projects span from nanoparticle delivery after brain injury to neural injury biomarker discovery to neural tissue engineering/regenerative medicine. Dr. Stabenfeldt’s research is funded via federal (NIH, NSF), state (ABRC), and private foundation/clinical sources (Flinn Foundation, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Mayo Clinic). Dr. Stabenfeldt has received a number of prestigious awards including NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (2014), NSF CAREER Award (2015), and Arizona Biomedical Research Centre Early Stage Investigator Award (2015). Additional honors include Emerging Investigator Journal of Materials Chemistry, B (2017), Emerging Investigator Biomaterials Science (2017), Fulton Exemplar Faculty (2018), Emerging Investigator Journal of Biological Engineering (2019), the Society for Biomaterials Mid-Career Award (2021), Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE, 2022), and Fellow of Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES, 2023).