Sarah Stabenfeldt

Dr. Sarah Stabenfeldt is the Assistant Vice President of Research in Knowledge Enterprise and a President's Professor in the 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 several 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 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). Dr. Stabenfeldt has also served as Secretary-Treasurer and President of the Society for Biomaterials and current serves on the Treasurer for the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) - Americas Chapter.  Dr. Stabenfeldt serves on the editorial board for Acta Biomaterialia, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A, and Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering.