Dr. Ozbolat is a Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in 3D Bioprinting and Regenerative Medicine and Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics Department, Biomedical Engineering Department, and Neurosurgery Department, and a faculty member of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Materials Research Institute, Center for Neural Engineering, Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition, and Center for Research on Advanced Fiber Technologies at the Penn State University. Previously, he was a faculty member of The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and spearheaded the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Group and the Biomanufacturing Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in tissue engineering from the University at Buffalo (SUNY) in Buffalo, New York, and dual B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and in Industrial Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
Dr. Ozbolat's major research thrust is in the area of Bioprinting and Tissue Engineering. His research on bioprinting for tissue and organ fabrication has been published in several high-quality venues, received various awards and has been featured in national and international media, broadcast TVs and press numerous times. He frequently gives talks at national and international forums, conferences and seminars and organizes demonstrations and events to the public and youths to encourage participation of future's engineers in medicine, engineering and science. His technology spun off two start-up companies and he is a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Alpha Pi Mu, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and Regenerative Medicine Manufacturing Society. He currently sits in the advisory board of Biolife4D and Healshape companies, and science advisory board of several research and education institutions including Diabetes in Action Research and Education Foundation, Lysosomal & Rare Disorders Research & Treatment Center, Erciyes University and Cukurova University, etc.
1. Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in 3D Bioprinting and Regenerative Medicine (2024)
2. Incentive Award (Presidential Award), Turkish Health Institutes (2022)
3. Hartz Family Career Professorship in Engineering (2017)
4. FAME Jr Award, the International Outstanding Young Researcher in Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Award (2015)
5. Hamed K. Eldin Outstanding Early Career IE in Academia Award (2015)
6. Who's Who in America (2015)
7. ASME Chao and Trigger Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (2014)
8. ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal Award (2014)
9. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2014)
10. Society of Manufacturing Engineers Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (2014)
11. IIE Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, Manufacturing and Design Best Track Paper, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2013)
12. Article Selected in 2013 Highlights of Biofabrication, IOP (2013)
13. Start up Launch Award, The University of Iowa (2013)
14. Leadership Award, Center for Computer-Aided Design (2013)
15. Innovations in Teaching with Technology Award, Iowa City (2013)
16. Innovations in Teaching with Technology Award, Iowa City (2012)
17. Bronze Medal, 3rd International Mathematics Olympics, The Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey (1998)
Invited Talk: 9th Rare Tumor Syposium (February 2022).
Invited Lecture: Penn State Sigma Xi Lecture (Nov 9, 2021).
Invited Talk: ASTM International Conference on Additive Manufacturing (Nov 1-5, 2021).
Invited Seminar: Biomedical Engineering Department, Binghamton University (Oct 22, 2021).
Invited Talk: Bioprinting and Bioink Innovations for 3D-Tissues (Oct 6, 2021).
Invited Talk: BioTurkiye (Sept 9, 2021)
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