Kristyn Simcha Masters is an American bioengineer who is professor and Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Colorado Denver. She works as Director of the Anschutz Medical Campus Center. Her research looks to create tissue-engineered models of disease, with a focus on cancer and cardiac disease.
Early life and education
Masters studied chemical engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She moved to Rice University for her doctorate, where she studied pharmacologically active materials for nitric oxide therapy. She moved to the University of Colorado Boulder for postdoctoral research.
Research and career
Masters joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2004, where she developed tissue-engineered models of disease, with a focus on cancer and heart disease. To do this, she studied the interactions between cells and biomaterials, investigating how the cellular microenvironment impacts cell behavior. She was made the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in 2016.
Masters moved to the University of Colorado Denver in 2023, where she was made Chair of the Department of Bioengineering and Director of the Anschutz Medical Campus Center.
Awards and honors
2008 American Society for Engineering Education Biomedical Teaching Award
2008 Outstanding New Educator Award2016 H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellow
2018 Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Selected publications
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) American bioengineers American women engineers University of Colorado Denver faculty Rice University alumni University of Michigan alumni Women bioengineers Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty University of Colorado Boulder people 21st-century American engineers 21st-century women engineers