Jianping Fu, Ph.D.
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Short Biography
Dr. Fu received a B.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2000 and an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2002. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2007, completing his thesis under the guidance of Dr. Jongyoon Han. From 2007 to 2009, Dr. Fu was an American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Christopher S. Chen's group at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Fu has been at the University of Michigan in the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 2009 to the present, achieving the rank of Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 2020. Additionally, Dr. Fu holds courtesy appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology.
Dr. Fu’s research contributions have earned him recognition through more than 30 institutional, national, and international awards and honors. These include the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2012), the Rising Star Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society (2016), the Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award from the American Chemical Society (2020), and the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2022). Dr. Fu is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineers (IAMBE), and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). He is a Life Member of the World Association of Chinese Biomedical Engineers (WACBE). Dr. Fu is also a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Dr. Fu was a member of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Guidelines Working Group from 2019 to 2021 and is currently a member of the ISSCR Publications Committee. He is a council member of the Biomedical Engineering Society Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Special Interest Group (BMES CMBE-SIG). Dr. Fu currently serves as the Associate Editor of npj Regenerative Medicine and is an Editorial or Advisory Board Member of Cell Stem Cell, Biophysical Journal, Cell Regeneration, Mechanobiology in Medicine, and Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. Additionally, Dr. Fu is a Founding Member of the Catalysts Program of EMBO Journal.
Dr. Fu’s current research focuses on mechanobiology, stem cell bioengineering, developmental bioengineering, microfluidics and BioMEMS. Dr. Fu and his co-workers' research on modeling human development using human stem cells has contributed significantly to the emerging field of "Artificial Embryos", which was selected by MIT Technology Review as one of the “10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2018” and by Nature Methods as “the Method of 2023”.
A. EDUCATION
B. POSITIONS AND EMPLOYMENTMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Ph.D. Department of Mechanical Engineering. (2002-2007)
Ph.D. advisor: Jongyoon HanUniversity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
M.S. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. (2000-2002)University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
B.E. Department of Mechanical Engineering. (1995-2000)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania
Professor (with tenure), Department of Mechanical Engineering. (2020-present)
Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Mechanical Engineering. (2015-2020)
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering. (2009-2015)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Bioengineering. (2007-2009)
Postdoctoral advisor: Christopher S. Chen
C. SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Merit Awards (2024; with X. Xue, J. Bok and Y. Kim)
Life Member, World Association of Chinese Biomedical Engineers (WACBE) (2024)
Wise-Najafi Prize for Engineering Excellence in the Miniature World, Univ. Michigan (2024)
Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) (2023)
Fellow, International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineers (IAMBE) (2023)
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2022)
Mid-career Biosciences Faculty Achievement Recognition Award, Univ. Michigan (2022)
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (2020)
Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award, American Chemical Society (ACS) (2020)
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2020)
Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) (2020)
Robert M. Caddell Memorial Award for Research, Univ. Michigan (2020)
Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) (2020)
“10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2018 - Artificial Embryos”, MIT Technology Review (2018)
George J. Huebner, Jr. Research Excellence Award, Univ. Michigan (2018)
Rising Star Award, Biomedical Engineering Society - Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (2016)
Ted Kennedy Family Team Excellence Award, Univ. Michigan (2015)
Robert M. Caddell Memorial Award for Research, Univ. Michigan (2014)
Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award, Univ. Michigan (2014)
National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2012)
American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant (National, 2012)
American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship (2008-2010)
Senturia Prize for Best Thesis in MEMS/NEMS, MIT (2007)
Halen Carr Peake Research Prize for Bioengineering Research of Extraordinary Quality, MIT (2007)
PPST 20th Anniversary Research Excellence Award, First Runner-up, MIT (2006)
MIT 100K Entrepreneurship Competition, Semifinalist (2006)
Massachusetts Technology Assessment Award (2006)
D. SELECTED MEDIA INTERVIEWS
09/19/2017, Interview by MIT Technology Review
Artificial human embryos are coming, and no one knows how to handle them
09/11/2019, Interview by National Public Radio (NPR)
Scientists create a device that can mass-produce human embryoids
09/19/2019, Interview by MIT Technology Review
Meet the “artificial embryos” being called uncanny and spectacular
02/27/2020, Interview by COSMOS
Inside biology’s black box
09/01/2020, Interview by Analytical Chemistry
Jianping Fu wins Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award
07/01/2023, Interview by China News (in Chinese)
首个人类胚胎模型意味着什么?(What do human embryo models mean?)
E. JOURNAL EDITORIAL SERVICES
Editorial Board Member, Biophysical Journal (2024 - present)
Advisory Board Member, Cell Stem Cell (2023 - present)
Editorial Board Member, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (2023 - present)
Editorial Board Member, Mechanobiology in Medicine (2022 - present)
Editorial Board Member, Cell Regeneration (2022 - present)
Associate Editor, npj Regenerative Medicine (2021 - present)
Founding Member, Catalysts Program, EMBO Journal (2021 - present)
Guest Editor, Stem Cell Reports, Special Issue on Embryo Modeling, with co-editor Nicolas Rivron (2021)
Guest Editor, Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, Special Issue on Organoids and Tissue Development, with co-editor George A. Truskey (2020)
Guest Editor, Biomicrofluidics, 2015
Guest Editor, ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 2014
Guest Editor, ASME Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine, Special Topic on: Nanoscale materials, devices, and systems for biosensing, biomanipulation, and biofabrication, 2014
F. SELECTED RECENT SERVICES
Conference Organizer
Other Services
Organizing Committee Co-Chair, 2024 8th Bioengineering and Translational Medicine Conference (co-chair: Liangfang Zhang)
Scientific Program Committee Member, 2024 11th World Association for Chinese Biomedical Engineers (WACBE) World Congress on Bioengineering
Conference Co-Organizer, 2023 BMES Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Conference (co-organizers: Dennis Discher and Stephanie Fraley)
Conference Co-Organizer, 2022 Keystone Symposia: Multi-Cellular Engineered Living Systems: Biologically Engineered Systems with New Functionality (co-organizers: Roger D. Kamm and Nuria Montserrat Pulido)
Conference Co-Organizer, 2022 BIRS Workshop: Modeling and Engineering of the Mammalian Embryo (co-organizers: Janet Rossant and Eric D. Siggia)
Conference Co-Organizer, 2021 ISSCR Digital Meeting Series on Stem Cell-Based Embryo Models (co-organizer: Nicolas Rivron)
Member, Biomedical Engineering Society-Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (BMES-CMBE) Council (2019-present)
Member, ASME Bioengineering Division National Technical Committee on Tissue and Cellular Engineering (2011-present)
Member, International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Publications Committee (2021-present)
Member, MicroTAS Technical Programming Committee (TPC; 2021-present)
Organizing Committee Member, 7th Bioengineering and Translational Medicine Conference (2022)
Organizing Committee Member, 8th International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering (2022)
Member, International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Guidelines Working Group (2019-2021)