Dan Huh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is a pioneer of “organ-on-a-chip” technology, and his research group at Penn focuses on developing microengineered
models of human physiological systems for a wide variety of biomedical applications.
Education & Training
Harvard University, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, 2009-2012
Wyss Technology Development Fellow & Research Associate
Harvard Medical School & Children's Hospital Boston, 2007-2009
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2007
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004-2007
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2000-2002
M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Seoul National University, 1994-2000
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, 07/2019-present
Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor, 08/2013-06/2019
Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
Wilf Family Term Endowed Chair, 08/2013-present
University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor, 03/2012-07/2013
Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Seoul National University
Honors & Awards
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Award, 2020
Bernard Langer Distinguished Lectureship, University of Toronto, 2019
Lush Prize (with a monetary prize of £50,000), Lush, 2018
Alice R. McPherson Distinguished Lectureship, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2018
The CRI Technology Impact Award, Cancer Research Institute, 2017
John J. Ryan Medal, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 2017
Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award, Analytical Chemistry and the Chemical and
Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS), 2016
Finalist, 2015 National Collegiate Inventors Competition, 2015
Design of the Year Award, London Design Museum, 2015
Best Product Design of the Year Award, London Design Museum, 2015
TEDx Fellow, Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED), 2015
Lifetime Membership, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), 2015
Featured Designer for Organs-on-Chips acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, 2015
NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2014
New England’s Breakthrough Inventions and Inventors, Museum of Science & Boston Patent Law Association, 2013
Wilf Family Term Endowed Chair, University of Pennsylvania (2013 – present), 2013
NC3Rs Annual Award, National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement, and Reduction of Animals in Research, London, 2013
Best Paper Award, Korean Society of Medical and Biological Engineering, 2012
SLAS Innovation Award, Society for Lab Automation and Screening, 2012
Finalist, INDEX: Design for Life Award, 2011
The Top 100 Science Stories of 2010, Discover Magazine, 2011
Scientific Breakthrough of the Year, American Thoracic Society, 2011
Best Publication Award, Nanotoxicology Specialty Section, Society of Toxicology, 2011
Best Postdoctoral Award, In Vitro and Alternative Methods Annual Competition, Society of Toxicology, 2011
Wyss Technology Development Fellowship, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 2009-2012
Best Poster Award, 2007 Gordon Research Conference on Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics, 2007
Best Talk of the Year Award, Microfluidics Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, University of Michigan, 2007
Best Poster Award in Tissue Engineering and Biomechanics, 2006 Engineering Symposium, University of Michigan, 2006
Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Michigan 2005
Best Poster Award, 2005 NASA Bioscience and Engineering Institute Symposium, 2005
Horace H. Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2005
Widmer Best Poster Award, 2004 International Conference on Miniaturized Systems in Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS 2004), 2004
Mechanical Engineering Department Scholarship, Seoul National University, 1997-1999