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Kaitlyn Sadtler

Dr. Kaitlyn Sadtler is an Investigator and Chief of the Section on Immunoengineering at the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Sadtler completed her undergraduate degree in at the University of Maryland Baltimore Country, then studied the role of T cells in biomaterial-mediated muscle regeneration at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for her PhD, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Sadtler is the recipient of several awards, including a TED Fellowship, was listed on the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 List in Science and the 2021 MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 List, as well as an NIH Director’s Award for Mentorship and for her work on COVID-19 wherein she led a team to detect 17 million undiagnosed SARS-CoV-2 infections after the first wave of the pandemic in the US. In 2022 she was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from UMBC. She continues her research on immunoengineering at the NIH working on next generation therapeutics for traumatic injury and medical device implantation.


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