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Jason Szafron is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Texas A&M University, where he completed an undergraduate thesis on endovascular medical device design. He then pursued both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Yale University, focusing on computational optimization of polymeric scaffolds for tissue-engineered vascular grafts. After completing his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University, where he employed experimental and computational methods to quantify mechanobiological changes in the progression of pulmonary arterial hypertension. His research aims to develop simulation tools for predicting disease progression and improving treatment options for cardiovascular diseases in fetal, pediatric, and adult populations. The lab is particularly interested in congenital heart disease and pulmonary vascular diseases, exploring how mechanobiological factors influence growth and remodeling during gestation and maturation.
Carnegie Mellon University • Pittsburgh, PA
Teaching and conducting research in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Admission is extremely competitive with no strict GPA cut-offs; holistic review is used.