Sarah Stabenfeldt

Sch Biological & Hlth Sys Engr

Assoc Professor

Faculty, TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 9709

School of Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate faculty

Asst Professor

Faculty, TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 9709

Biological and Health Systems Engineering

Asst Professor

Faculty, TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 9709

Biography:

Sarah Stabenfeldt received her bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering from Saint Louis University and her doctorate in bioengineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. She was awarded an National Institutes of Health (NIH) NRSA pre-doctoral fellowship for her doctoral thesis research on developing neural tissue engineering therapies for traumatic brain injury. As a NIH postdoctoral fellow at Emory University School of Medicine and Georgia Tech, she investigated fibrin-derived peptide-protein binding interactions, designing fibrin-based wound healing therapeutics. She joined Arizona State University’s School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering as an assistant professor in 2011 and leads her research team in developing regenerative medicine strategies for acute neural injury. Since joining ASU, Stabenfeldt has been awarded the Arizona Biomedical Research Consortium Early Stage Investigator Award, the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, and a National Science Founcation (NSF) CAREER Award.

Education:

Ph.D. Bioengineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Saint Louis University

Research Website:

https://stabenfeldt.engineering.asu.edu/

Google Scholar:

Google Scholar Profile

Research Interests:

Each year in the United States over 1.7 million individuals will experience a traumatic or ischemic-related brain injury, with 350,000 persons sustaining a severe to moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI) and an additional 800,000 people suffering from stroke. Our laboratory specifically focuses on (1) engineering novel targeted diagnostic and therapeutic (‘theranostic’) biomaterials for neural injury/disease and (2) identifying endogenous neural stem cell homing mechanisms after injury and incorporating such biosignals into tissue-engineered matrices.

Research Group:

Stabenfeldt Research Group

Research Activity:

Rege,Kaushal*, Stabenfeldt,Sarah E, Wallstrom,Garrick L. Photothermal Nanocomposites for Tissue Repair. HHS-NIH-NIBIB(9/9/2015 - 5/31/2019).
Spence,John Charles*, Carpenter,Ray W, Frasch,Wayne D, Fromme,Petra, Halden,Rolf, Hogue,Brenda G, Labaer,Joshua, Leket-Mor,Tsafrir Shlomo, Liu,Jingyue, Liu,Wei, Mason,Hugh S, Muthuswamy,Jitendran, Olive,Michael Foster, Rege,Kaushal, Rez,Peter, Rittmann,Bruce Edward, Roberson,Robert Wayne, Ros,Alexandra, Ros,Robert, Stabenfeldt,Sarah E, Torres,Cesar I, Van Horn,Wade Dale, Vermaas,Willem F J, Wachter,Rebekka M, Weierstall,Uwe Juergen, Westerhoff,Paul, Wiktor,Peter Jan, Yan,Hao. MRI: Acquisition of Cryo-EM for Southwest Regional Center. NSF-BIO-DBI(9/1/2015 - 8/31/2018).
Stabenfeldt,Sarah E*. "CAREER:Elucidation and modulation of chemotactic signaling after brain injury". NSF(4/1/2015 - 3/31/2020).
Kleim,Jeffrey Allan*, Stabenfeldt,Sarah E. A Novel TrkB Agonist To Promote Motor Recovery After TBI. HHS-NIH-NINDS(4/1/2015 - 3/31/2017).
Stabenfeldt,Sarah E*. Redecorating the Neural Injury Landscape to Promote Regeneration. AZ DEPT OF HEALTH SERVICES(10/23/2014 - 10/22/2017).
Stabenfeldt,Sarah E*, Kodibagkar,Vikram D. Next Generation Precision Diagnostics for Brain Injury. FLINN FDN(10/1/2014 - 9/30/2016).
Stabenfeldt,Sarah E*, Kleim,Jeffrey Allan, Kodibagkar,Vikram D, Rege,Kaushal, Sierks,Michael Richard. Detecting and Treating Traumatic Brain Injury Pathology Progression from the Inside-Out. HHS-NIH-NICHD(9/15/2014 - 8/31/2019).
Stabenfeldt,Sarah E*. The influence of injury severity on endogenous regeneration after traumatic brain injury. MAYO CLINIC SCOTTSDALE(1/1/2013 - 12/31/2013).

Courses

Summer 2020
Course Number	Course Title
BDE 792	Research

Spring 2020
Course Number	Course Title
BME 318	Biomaterials
BME 394	Special Topics
MIC 492	Honors Directed Study
BME 492	Honors Directed Study
MIC 493	Honors Thesis
BME 493	Honors Thesis
BIO 495	Undergraduate Research
MIC 495	Undergraduate Research
BME 592	Research
BME 599	Thesis
BME 792	Research
BDE 792	Research
BDE 799	Dissertation

Fall 2019
Course Number	Course Title
BME 318	Biomaterials
BME 394	Special Topics
BME 492	Honors Directed Study
BME 493	Honors Thesis
MIC 495	Undergraduate Research
BME 592	Research
BME 599	Thesis
BME 792	Research

Spring 2019
Course Number	Course Title
BME 394	Special Topics
MIC 492	Honors Directed Study
BME 492	Honors Directed Study
BME 493	Honors Thesis
MIC 493	Honors Thesis
MIC 495	Undergraduate Research
BME 592	Research
BME 599	Thesis
BDE 792	Research
BME 792	Research

Fall 2018
Course Number	Course Title
BME 394	Special Topics
BME 492	Honors Directed Study
BME 493	Honors Thesis
MIC 495	Undergraduate Research
BME 592	Research
BME 599	Thesis
BME 792	Research

Summer 2018
Course Number	Course Title
BME 394	Special Topics

Spring 2018
Course Number	Course Title
BME 394	Special Topics
BME 492	Honors Directed Study
MIC 492	Honors Directed Study
BME 493	Honors Thesis
MIC 493	Honors Thesis
MIC 495	Undergraduate Research
BME 592	Research
BME 598	Special Topics
BME 599	Thesis
BME 792	Research

Fall 2017
Course Number	Course Title
BME 318	Biomaterials
BME 394	Special Topics
BME 492	Honors Directed Study
BME 493	Honors Thesis
MIC 495	Undergraduate Research

Summer 2017
Course Number	Course Title
BME 394	Special Topics

Spring 2017
Course Number	Course Title
BME 394	Special Topics
MIC 492	Honors Directed Study
BME 492	Honors Directed Study
BME 493	Honors Thesis
MIC 495	Undergraduate Research
BME 590	Reading and Conference
BME 593	Applied Project

Fall 2016
Course Number	Course Title
BME 394	Special Topics
BME 492	Honors Directed Study
BME 493	Honors Thesis
BME 592	Research
BME 593	Applied Project

Spring 2016
Course Number	Course Title
BME 318	Biomaterials
BME 394	Special Topics
BME 492	Honors Directed Study
BME 493	Honors Thesis
MIC 495	Undergraduate Research
BME 590	Reading and Conference
BME 593	Applied Project

Fall 2015
Course Number	Course Title
ASU 101-BME	The ASU Experience
BME 318	Biomaterials
BME 394	Special Topics
BME 492	Honors Directed Study
BME 493	Honors Thesis
BME 593	Applied Project

Honors / Awards:

SBHSE Metin Akay Graduate Service Award, Arizona State University, April 2019
Emerging Leader, Journal of Biological Engineering, February 2019
Fulton Exemplar Faculty (Selected among the top 10% of Engineering Faculty), Arizona State University, May 2018
Emerging Investigator, Biomaterials Science, July 2017
Emerging Investigator, Journal of Materials Chemistry, B, April 2017
PLuS Alliance Fellow, Arizona State University, 2016-2019
William J. Dorsen Jr. Excellence in Research Award, Arizona State University, April 2016
Outstanding Junior Faculty Poster Award, GRC Biomaterials & Tissue Eng., July 2015.
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, April 2015.
National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award, October 2014.
Arizona Biomedical Research Consortium Early Stage Investigator Award, Sept 2014.

Editorships:

Associate Editor - Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, May 2019 - Present
Editorial Board – Member, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research – Part A, January 2019 – Present
Editorial Board – Member, Acta Biomaterialia, December 2018 – Present

Professional Associations:

Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Member

National Student Affairs Committee, Member (2011- 2015)
ASU BMES Student Chapter Faculty Mentor (2012-Present)

Society for Biomaterials (SFB), Member

Secretary-Treasurer Elect (2019-Present)
Special Interest Group Representative to Exec Board (2017-2019)
Chair of Engineering Cells and Their Microenvironments Special Interest Group (2015-2017)
Vice-Chair of Engineering Cells and Their Microenvironments Special Interest Group (2013- 2015)

National Neurotrauma Society, Member

Expertise Areas:

Traumatic Brain Inury

Regenerative Medicine

Nanotechnology

Tissue Engineering

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