Associate Professor
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Sarah Calve received her BS in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University, then a MS in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and a PhD in Macromolecular Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan. Her doctoral research focused on the design and mechanical characterization of self-assembling constructs for musculoskeletal repair, under the guidance of Prof. Ellen Arruda. As a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University’s Children’s Memorial Hospital, Sarah investigated the role of ECM remodeling during newt limb regeneration. Sarah joined the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University as an assistant professor in 2012. Her research group, the Musculoskeletal Extracellular Matrix Laboratory, is actively developing tools to quantify how the composition, turnover, organization and mechanical properties of the musculoskeletal system change during scar-free tissue assembly. The goal is to use these tools to elucidate how different components of the ECM integrate to form functional tissues during normal development and identify parameters that will guide the design of regenerative therapies. In 2017, she became the first Purdue professor to receive the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. Additional recognitions include the BMES-CMBE Rising Star Junior Faculty Award (2018), inclusion in the National Academy of Engineering, Japan–America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (2018), selection as a Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering “Young Innovator” (2019) and being named the Leslie S. Geddes Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue (2019). Sarah joined the University of Colorado as an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering in January 2020 and is a member of the Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and BioFrontiers programs at CU Boulder.
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Dynamics of the Extracellular Matrix during Regeneration
Saturday, March 29, 2025
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM US PDT
