Eben Alsberg, Ph.D.
Richard and Loan Hill Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Orthopaedics, Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine and Mechanical & Industrial Engineering University of Illinois at Chicago Research Health Scientist, Department of Veterans Affairs Jesse Brown VA Medical Center [email protected] |
Eben Alsberg holds the Richard and Loan Hill Professorship in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he serves as Director of the Alsberg Stem Cell and Engineered Novel Therapeutics (ASCENT) Laboratory. He was previously a professor at Case Western Reserve University in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery from 2005-2018. He received his B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering and also in Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, cum laude, from Duke University in 1994. He then went to graduate school at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he received an M.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering (1998), an M.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering (1998), and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (2002). Following his graduate studies, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Vascular Biology Program at Harvard Medical School. His laboratory focuses on engineering functional biologic replacements to repair damaged or diseased tissues in the body. Complex signals implicated in tissue morphogenesis, repair, and homeostasis are used as inspiration for the development of innovative biomaterials for tissue regeneration. Through the precise temporal and spatial presentation of soluble bioactive factors, mechanical forces, and biomaterial physical and biochemical properties, his lab aspires to create microenvironments that regulate cell gene expression and new tissue formation.
He has co-authored over 155 peer reviewed papers and book chapters. His work has been recognized with the Biovalley Young Investigator Award from the Tissue Engineering Society International, the Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging Award, the Crain’s Cleveland Business Forty Under 40 Award, the Technion Lady Davis Fellowship, a Visiting Professorship at Kyung Hee University, and election as fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). His research has been funded by the NIH, VA, DOD, NSF, the Ellison Medical Foundation, the Coulter Foundation, the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation, the State of Ohio and the AO Foundation. Dr. Alsberg has over 30 patents issued or pending in the field of biomaterials and tissue engineering. He has given over 150 invited lectures around the world, including in the United States, Greece, Japan, Poland, Ireland, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Israel, Italy, Switzerland, China, Germany, and Austria. He is active in many professional societies.
He has co-authored over 155 peer reviewed papers and book chapters. His work has been recognized with the Biovalley Young Investigator Award from the Tissue Engineering Society International, the Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging Award, the Crain’s Cleveland Business Forty Under 40 Award, the Technion Lady Davis Fellowship, a Visiting Professorship at Kyung Hee University, and election as fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). His research has been funded by the NIH, VA, DOD, NSF, the Ellison Medical Foundation, the Coulter Foundation, the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation, the State of Ohio and the AO Foundation. Dr. Alsberg has over 30 patents issued or pending in the field of biomaterials and tissue engineering. He has given over 150 invited lectures around the world, including in the United States, Greece, Japan, Poland, Ireland, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Israel, Italy, Switzerland, China, Germany, and Austria. He is active in many professional societies.