Glenn R. Gaudette

John W. Kozarich ’71 Chair of the Department of Engineering

Professor

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Glenn R. Gaudette

Contact

245 Beacon Street, Room 511

Telephone: 617-552-2049

Email: glenn.gaudette@bc.edu

Courses

Senior Impact Project, Collaborative Service Engineering Project, Biomechanics

Research Interests

Biomechanics, Tissue Engineering, Cellular Agriculture

Profile

Glenn Gaudette, PhD, is the inaugural John W. Kozarich '71 Chair of the Department of Engineering at Boston College (BC). He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Working together with his colleagues, they developed the first Engineering program in the history of BC. His research has pioneered the use of spinach and other plants as scaffolds for heart regeneration and more recently, for lab-grown meat. His work has featured throughout the world including on Bill Nye Saves the World (on Netflix), live interview on the BBC, Popular Science and at the Centre Pompidou (Paris). Dr. Gaudette also enjoys teaching engineering mechanics, design and innovation, biomechanics and physiology.

Selected Publications

Hansen KJ, Favreau JT, Guyette JP, Tao ZW, Coffin ST, Cunha-Gavidia A, D'Amore B, Perreault LR, Fitzpatrick JP, DeMartino A, Gaudette GR. Functional Effects of Delivering Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Seeded Biological Sutures to an Infarcted Heart. BioResearch Open Access, 2016.

Gershlak JR, Hernandez S, Fontana G, Perreault LR, Hansen KJ, Larson SA, Binder BY, Dolivo DM, Yang T, Dominko T, Rolle MW, Weathers PJ, Medina-Bolivar F, Cramer CL, Murphy WL, Gaudette GR. Crossing kingdoms: Using decellularized plants as perfusable tissue engineering scaffolds. Biomaterials. 2017 May;125:13-22.

Jank BJ, Goverman J, Guyette JP, Charest JM, Randolph MA, Gaudette GR, Gershlak JR, Purschke M, Javorsky E, Nazarian RM, Leonard DA, Cetrulo CL, Austen WG Jr, Ott HC. Creation of a Bioengineered Skin Flap Scaffold with a Perfusable Vascular Pedicle. Tissue Engineering Part A. 2017, 23(13-14):696-707.

How Role-Playing Builds Empathy and Concern for Social Justice. Dodson L, DiBiasio D, Quinn P, Bergendahl J, Boudreau K, Gaudette G, Sullivan JM, Abel C. 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2017.

Hutcheson JD, Goergen CJ, Schoen FJ, Aikawa M, Zilla P, Aikawa E, Gaudette GR. After 50 Years of Heart Transplants: What Does the Next 50 Years Hold for Cardiovascular Medicine? A Perspective from the International Society for Applied Cardiovascular Biology. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 2019, 6 (e-pub).

Carlson C, Polizzotto L, Gaudette GR. The “NABC's” of Value Propositions. IEEE Engineering Management Review. 2019, 47(3), 15-20.

Jones JD, Rebello AS, Gaudette GR. Decellularized spinach: An edible scaffold for lab-grown meat. Food Bioscience 2021, 41, 100986.

Billiar K, Gaver DP, Barbee K, Singh A, DesJardins JD, Pruitt B, Tranquillo J, Gaudette G, Winkelstein B, Makowski L, Amos JR, Saterbak A, LeDoux J, Helmke B, Grimm M, Benkeser P, Dourte-Segan L, Pfister B, Meaney D, Arinzeh T, Margulies S. Learning Environments and Evidence-Based Practices in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering. Biomedical Engineering Education. 2022, 2, 1-16.

Hira A, Bhattacharya S, Gaudette G, Govindasamy S. Designing a Design-Driven Human-Centered Engineering Program. International Journal of Engineering Education. 2022, 38(6), 1815-23.

Thyden R, Dominko T, Weathers P, dos Santos ACF, Perreault LR, Reddig D, Kloster J, Gaudette GR. Recycling spent animal cell culture media using the thermally resistant microalga Chlorella sorokiniana. Systems Microbiology and Biomanufacturing. 2024, 1-14.

Patents

  • Systems and methods for mapping and ablation in the bladder (with M Boden, S Nagale, Y Mendelson, D Cavallaro*, T Richardson*, T Hickey*, R Shuraim*, D Goksun*)
    US Patent # 11,083,516; Issued August 10, 2021; * = undergraduate students
  • Decellularization of Plant Cell Culture Materials for Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery (with J Coburn, N Phan)
    US Patent # 11,110,203; Issued: September 7, 2021

Appointments, Awards, and Grants

  • Awarded John W. Kozarich '71 Chair of the Department of Engineering (Endowed Chair) 
  • Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) 
  • Awarded William Smith Dean’s Professor of Biomedical Engineering at WPI (Endowed Chair) 
  • Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
  • Named for One of the Top Medical Breakthroughs in 2017 (Boston Magazine)
  • 7th Most Popular Story in 2017 – National Geographic
  • Top 5 most-downloaded paper in BioResearch Open Access in 2017
  • #53 Most Impactful Paper (out of over 2 million) of 2017 (Altmetrics)
  • 2015 Kern Family Foundation – Outstanding Faculty of the Year 
  • 2014 Long Island Tech Hall of Fame – Innovation for the Individual Patent Award Winner
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