Adam Engler, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UC San Diego
Dr. Engler is a resident scientist at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine. His research interests include how extracellular matrix properties regulate stem cell differentiation, typically into skeletal and cardiac muscle and aging. He was a recipient of an NIH Innovator Award and a Young Investigator Award from the Human Frontiers Science Program. Engler holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Engineering and was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University in the Department of Molecular Biology.