Robert Mauck

University of Pennsylvania

Robert L. Mauck, PhD is the Mary Black Ralston Professor of Education and Research in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Senior Research Career Scientist and Co-Director of the Translational Musculoskeletal Research Center at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia and Director of the new RRDT-funded Cartilage Regeneration using Advanced Technologies to Enable (CReATE) Motion Center. His research program focuses on the engineering and mechanobiology of musculoskeletal tissues, with a particular interest in restoring articular cartilage, the knee meniscus, and the intervertebral disc. Dr. Mauck’s team uses mechanical and molecular analyses to explore native tissue structure-function-phenotype relationships in health and disease and employs this information to enhance regeneration through focused technology development. His work explores progenitor cell function and efficacy in a variety of biomaterial contexts and across multiple length scales, from subcellular biophysical properties to translation of engineered systems in large animal models.