Sarah Heilshorn

Director, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials (GLAM), Rickey/Nielsen Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor, by courtesy, of Bioengineering and of Chemical Engineering

Bio

Heilshorn's interests include biomaterials in regenerative medicine, engineered proteins with novel assembly properties, microfluidics and photolithography of proteins, and synthesis of materials to influence stem cell differentiation. Current projects include tissue engineering for spinal cord and blood vessel regeneration, designing injectable materials for use in stem cell therapies, and the design of microfluidic devices to study the directed migration of cells (i.e., chemotaxis).

Academic Appointments

Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Professor (By courtesy), Chemical Engineering
Professor (By courtesy), Bioengineering
Member, Bio-X
Member, Cardiovascular Institute
Member, Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance
Member, Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI)
Affiliate, Precourt Institute for Energy
Faculty Fellow, Sarafan ChEM-H
Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Honors & Awards

New Innovator Award, National Institutes of Health (2009)
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2009)
New Investigator Award, Petroleum Research Fund, American Chemical Society (2009)

Professional Education

PhD, Caltech, Chemical Engineering (2004)
MS, Caltech, Chemical Engineering (2000)
BS, Georgia Tech, Chemical Engineering (1998)

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

Protein engineering
Tissue engineering
Regenerative medicine
Biomaterials

Stanford Advisees

Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Carolyn Jons, Danielle Klinger, Amy Laturski, Zachary Montgomerie, Cindy Shi, Cassandra Villicana, Lucy Wang, Jonathan Weiss, Brendan Wirtz
Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
Fotios Christakopoulos, Carla Huerta Lopez, Jordan Moore
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Naomi Alyafei, Neil Baugh, Jordan Bunch, Betty Cai, Michelle Huang, Becca Lau, Seungheon Lee, Yueming Liu, Chris Long, Esther Mozipo, Narelli Paiva, Diya Singhal, Daiyao Zhang
Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (AC)
Marina Chang, Yee Lin Tan
Master's Program Advisor
Stella Chung, Nandagopal Pradeep Kumar, Chrystalen Stambaugh
Doctoral (Program)
Eddie Barks, Marina Chang

Graduate and Fellowship Programs

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