Jason A.ÌýBurdick
- Bowman Endowed Professor
- CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Address
Office: JSCBB A224
Education
BS, University of Wyoming (1998)
PhD, University of Colorado (2002)
Awards
- Overall Achievement Award, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï (2025)
- Elected Member, National Academy of Medicine (2024)
- Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers, Clarivate Analytics (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
- International Award, European Society for Biomaterials (2024)
- International Fellow, The Canadian Academy of Engineering (2023)
- Elected Fellow Biomaterials Science and Engineering, IUS-BSE (2020)
- Chaffer Visiting Fellowship, University of Otago – New Zealand (2019)
- Acta Biomaterialia Silver Medal Award (2019)
- Elected Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) (2019)
- Elected Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (NAI) (2019)
- Clemson Award for Basic Research, Society for Biomaterials (2018)
- George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, UPenn (2018)
- Young Talent Award, Conference of Molecular Engineering of Polymers (2016)
- American Heart Association Established Investigator Award (2014)
- Elected Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) (2011)
- NIH/NIBIB Edward C. Nagy New Investigator Award (2011)
- Kalpana Chalwa Outstanding Recent Alumni Award, University of Colorado (2011)
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009)
- Coulter Foundation Early Career Award (2008)
- ACS Petroleum Research Fund Early Career Grant (2007)
- Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering (2007)
Selected Publications
- A.P. Dhand, M.D. Davidson, J.A. Burdick, Lithography-based 3D Printing of Hydrogels, Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 3:108-125, 2025.
- N. Di Caprio, A.J. Hughes, J.A. Burdick, Programmed Shape Transformations in Cell-laden Granular Composites, Science Advances, 11:eadq5011, 2025.
- A.P. Dhand, M.D. Davidson, H.M. Zlotnick, T.J. Kolibaba, J.P. Killgore, J.A. Burdick, Additive Manufacturing of Highly Entangled Polymer Networks, Science, 385:566-572, 2024.
- K.L. Xu, N. Di Caprio, H. Fallahi, M. Dehghany, M.D. Davidson, L. Laforest, B.C.H. Cheung, Y. Zhang, M. Wu, V. Shenoy, L. Han, R.L. Mauck, J.A. Burdick, Microinterfaces in Biopolymer-based Biocontinuous Hydrogels Guide Rapid 3D Cell Migration, Nature Communications, 15:2766, 2024.
- S.J. Heo, S. Thakur, X. Chen, C. Loebel, B. Xia, R. McBeath, J.A. Burdick, V.B. Shenoy, R.L. Mauck, M. Lakadamyali, Aberrant Chromatin Reorganization in Cells from Diseased Fibrous Connective Tissue in Response to Altered Chemomechanical Cues, Nature Biomedical Engineering, 7:177-191, 2023.
- A.P. Dhand, M.D. Davidson, J.H. Galarraga, T.H. Qazi, R.C. Locke, R.L. Mauck,ÌýJ.A. Burdick, Simultaneous One-pot Interpenetrating Network Formation to Expand 3D Processing Capabilities,ÌýAdvanced Materials, 34:2202261Ìý(2022).
- T.H. Qazi, J. Wu, V.G. Muir, S. Weintraub, S. Gullbrand, D. Lee, D. Issadore,ÌýJ.A. Burdick, Anisotropic Rod-shaped Particles Influence Injectable Granular Hydrogel Properties and Cell Invasion,ÌýAdvanced Materials, 34:2109194 (2022).
- A.C. Daly, M.E. Prendergast, A.J. Hughes,J.A. Burdick, Bioprinting for the Biologist,ÌýCell, 184:18-32 (2021).
- A.C. Daly, M.D. Davidson,ÌýJ.A. Burdick, 3D Printing of High Cell-Density Heterogenous Tissue Models through Spheroid Fusion within Self-Healing Hydrogels,ÌýNature Communications, 12:753 (2021).
- A.C. Daly, L.A. Riley, T. Segura,ÌýJ.A. Burdick, Hydrogel Microparticles for Biomedical Applications,ÌýNature Reviews Materials, 5:20-43 (2020).
- C.B. Highley, K.H. Song, A.C. Daly,ÌýJ.A. Burdick, Jammed Microgel Inks for 3D Printing Applications,ÌýAdvanced Science, 6:1801076 (2019).
- C. Loebel, R.L. Mauck,ÌýJ.A. Burdick, Local Nascent Protein Deposition and Remodeling Guide Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Mechanosensing and Fate in Three-dimensional Hydrogels,ÌýNature Materials, 18:883-891 (2019).
- S.L. Vega, M.Y. Kwon, K.H. Song, C. Wang, R.L. Mauck, L. Han,ÌýJ.A. Burdick, Combinatorial Hydrogels with Biochemical Gradients for Screening 3D Cellular Microenvironments,ÌýNature Communications, 9:614 (2018).
- J.E. Mealy, J.J. Chung, H.H. Jeong, D. Issadore, D. Lee, P. Atluri,ÌýJ.A. Burdick, Injectable Granular Hydrogels with Multifunctional Properties for Biomedical Applications,ÌýAdvanced Materials, 30:1705912 (2018).
- K.H. Song, C.B. Highley, A. Rouff,ÌýJ.A. Burdick, Complex 3D-printed Microchannels within Cell-degradable Hydrogels,ÌýAdvanced Functional Materials, 28:1801331 (2018).
- L.L. Wang, Y. Liu, J.J. Chung, T. Wang, A.C. Gaffey, M. Lu, C.A. Cavanaugh, S. Zhou, R. Kanade, P. Atluri, E.E. Morrisey,ÌýJ.A. Burdick, Sustained miRNA Delivery from an Injectable Hydrogel Promotes Cardiomyocyte Proliferation and Functional Regeneration after Ischaemic Injury,ÌýNature Biomedical Engineering, 1:983-992 (2017).
- S.R. Caliari andÌýJ.A. Burdick, A Practical Guide to Hydrogels for Cell Culture,ÌýNature Methods, 13:405-414 (2016).
- R.J. Wade, E.J. Bassin, C.B. Rodell,ÌýJ.A. Burdick, Protease Degradable Electrospun Fibrous Hydrogels,ÌýNature Communications, 6:6639 (2015).
- C.B. Highley, C.B. Rodell,ÌýJ.A. Burdick, Direct 3D Printing of Shear-thinning Hydrogels into Self-healing Hydrogels,ÌýAdvanced Materials, 27:5075-5079 (2015).
- B.M. Baker, B. Trappmann, W.Y. Wang, M.S. Sakar, I.L. Kim, V.B. Shenoy,ÌýJ.A. Burdick, C.S. Chen, Cell-Mediated Fiber Recruitment Drives Extracellular Matrix Mechanosensing in Engineered Fibrillar Microenvironments,ÌýNature Materials, 14:1262-1268 (2015).
- B.P. Purcell, D. Lobb, M.B. Charati, S.M. Dorsey, R.J. Wade, K.N. Zellars, H. Doviak, S. Pettaway, C.B. Logdon, J.A. Shuman, C. Novak, J.H. Gorman, R.C. Gorman, F.G. Spinale,ÌýJ.A. Burdick, Injectable and Bioresponsive Hydrogels for On-Demand Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibition,ÌýNature Materials, 13:653-661 (2014).
- S. Khetan, M. Guvendiren, W.R. Legant, D.M. Cohen, C.S. Chen,ÌýJ.A. Burdick, Degradation-mediated Cellular Traction Directs Stem Cell Fate in Covalently Crosslinked Three-dimensional Hydrogels,ÌýNatu