Stadtman Investigator, Chief of Section on Immuno-Engineering
National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
Dr. Kaitlyn Sadtler is an Earl Stadtman Investigator and Chief of the Section on Immuno-Engineering at the National Institutes of Health. She began her lab at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering after a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Daniel Anderson and Dr. Robert Langer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Chemical Engineering working on the molecular mechanisms of immune activation in the foreign body response. There, she was awarded an F32 Ruth L Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellowship for her work on immunology and tissue engineering. She completed her Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with Dr. Jennifer Elisseeff where she showed a critical role for Th2-T cells in biomaterial-mediated muscle regeneration. Her research has been published in journals such as Science, Nature Methods, and other journals. She was recognized as a 2018 TED Fellow and delivered a TED talk that has been viewed >2.25 million times and listed as one of the top-viewed talks of 2018. Dr. Sadtler was selected for the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 List in Science and was selected as a 2020 TEDMED Research Scholar.
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Friday, April 28, 2023
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM