Poster #58 - Warren Ruder

University of Pittsburgh, United States

Biography

Dr. Warren Ruder moved his research group to the University of Pittsburgh’s Bioengineering Department in January of 2017. Previously, he spent four years as an assistant professor in Virginia Tech’s Biological Systems Engineering Department, where he led the Engineered Living Systems Laboratory. His expertise is in synthetic biology, cellular and molecular biomechanics, and labon- a-chip systems. Dr. Ruder received his PhD in biomedical engineering and his MSc in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and his BSc in civil and environmental engineering from MIT. From 2003-2005, he was a health science specialist at the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School. From 2005-2009, Dr. Ruder was an inaugural NIH trainee in the Pitt-CMU Biomechanics in Regenerative Medicine program and a Dowd graduate fellow in the groups of Phil LeDuc and Jim Antaki. From 2010-2012, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the group of Jim Collins at Boston University (now at MIT), and Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.