Location
Chair Office - MR5 2010 | 415 Lane Road
Lab
Lab Office - MR5 2228 | ​415 Lane Road
PO Box 800759
Charlottesville, VA 22908
Google Scholar Peirce-Cottler Laboratory UVA Center for Advanced Biomanufacturing

About

Shayn Peirce-Cottler develops computational models and combines them with wet lab experiments and machine learning to study how tissues heal after injury and to develop new therapies for inducing tissue regeneration. Her lab is particularly focused on engineering the body's smallest blood vessels -- microvessels, or capillaries -- that are necessary for delivering oxygen and nutrients to every cell in the body. Dr. Peirce-Cottler teaches courses in cell and molecular physiology and computational systems bioengineering to undergraduate and graduate students. She has published over 125 peer reviewed papers and book chapters, and she is an inventor on three U.S. Patents. She is a fellow in both the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows (AIMBE) and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). She is also Past-President of The Microcirculatory Society. Dr. Peirce-Cottler is a UVA School of Medicine Pinn Scholar, and in 2020 she was awarded the UVA School of Medicine’s Robert H. Kader Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. Dr. Peirce-Cottler is passionate about mentoring students and faculty, promoting diversity in STEM, and participating in K-12 outreach to increase students’ interest and self-confidence in pursuing STEM careers.

Education

B.S. ​Johns Hopkins University, 1997

Ph.D. ​University of Virginia, 2002

Post-Doc ​University of Virginia, 2004

Our research aims to address a critical bottleneck for all of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine: growing new functional and sustainable microvessels that can deliver blood to the tissues that we are trying to heal, replace, and protect from disease.

SHAYN PEIRCE-COTTLER, PHD

Research Interests

Systems Bioengineering
Tissue Engineering
Regenerative Medicine
Advanced Biomanufacturing 3D Bioprinting

Selected Publications

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Courses Taught

BME 6550 Clinical Technology Continuum of Care
BME 6001 Cell and Molecular Physiology for Engineers
BME 4315/6315 Systems Bioengineering
BME 6550 Biomedical Innovation

Awards

Eugene M. Landis Award, The Microcirculatory Society 2024
Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor 2021
Robert J. Kadner Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching 2020
Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 2020
Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) 2016
MIT Technology Review's Top 100 Young Investigators 2004
Rita Shaffer Young Investigator Award 2004

Featured Grants & Projects

National Intitutes of Health R21EB035402 Multiscale Computational Modeling to Design Patterned Tissue Assembloids for Biomanufacturing
National Institutes of Health R01HL155143 Modeling to Design Treatments for Idiopathic Lung Fibrosis
National Institutes of Health T32HL007284 Cardiovascular Research Training Grant
CVRC Website
Shayn Peirce-Cottler in the UVA Rotunda

Solving Problems in Medicine, Starting With the Smallest Blood Vessels