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Professor of Neurosurgery & Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. D. Kacy Cullen is a Professor (with tenure) of Neurosurgery & Bioengineering at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as the founding Director of the Center for Neurotrauma, Neurodegeneration & Restoration at the Corporal Michael Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia. He received a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, followed by postdoctoral fellowships in Neuroengineering at Georgia Tech and then at the Center for Brain Injury & Repair at Penn. Dr. Cullen’s research program operates at the intersection of Neural Engineering, Neurotrauma, and Regenerative Medicine. He is a leading innovator in neural tissue engineering and nervous system repair strategies, having pioneered “living scaffolds” to promote neural regeneration, microtissue engineering to restore brain circuitry, and living biological electrodes for neuroprosthetic interfaces. Dr. Cullen has authored over 140 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He is committed to the translation of advanced medical technologies and regenerative therapies, being an inventor on over 25 patents in the U.S. and international jurisdictions. Dr. Cullen’s group currently has extramural funding support from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, the State of Pennsylvania, and private Consortia and Foundations.
Biohybrid Neural Interfaces: Merging Biology and Technology
Thursday, June 12, 2025
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM ET