Cole DeForest

Expertise: Biomaterials, tissue engineering, 3D printing, bioorthogonal chemistry, optogenetics, protein engineering, drug delivery, polymer chemistry, photochemistry

Cole A. DeForest is a formally-trained chemical engineer with additional expertise in material science, organic synthesis, polymer chemistry, bioengineering, biophysics, protein engineering and photochemistry. He is currently the Weyerhaeuser Endowed Professor and Associate Professor in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at the University of Washington, and a Core Faculty Member of the Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine. His research establishes multidisciplinary methods to mimic, exploit and quantify biology’s 4D complexity, ultimately paving the way to new therapeutic targets and treatments of disease through a fundamentally transformed knowledge of basic cell physiology.