Dr. Christopher J. Bettinger

Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering

Education

• Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University

Bio

Dr. Bettinger received an S.B. in Chemical Engineering in 2003, an M.Eng. in Biomedical Engineering in 2004, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2008 as a Charles Stark Draper Fellow, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University in the Department of Chemical Engineering as an NIH Ruth Kirschstein Fellow in 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He has received many honors including the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering Award for “Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis”, the ACS AkzoNobel Award for Polymer Chemistry, and the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society Young Investigator Award. Prof. Bettinger is also a co-inventor on several patents and was a finalist in the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.

The Bettinger Group at Carnegie Mellon University is broadly interested in the applying principles of polymer synthesis, materials science, and microfabrication for use in next-generation biomedical devices for rehabilitation, regeneration, and controlled release. Members of the Bettinger Group work at the interface of several disciplines including polymer synthesis, characterization, microfabrication, and bioelectronics to achieve these goals.