W. Mark Saltzman is an engineer and educator. His research has impacted the fields of drug delivery, biomaterials, nanobiotechnology, and tissue engineering. This work is described in more than 350 research papers and dozens of patents. He is also the sole author of three textbooks: Biomedical Engineering, Tissue Engineering, and Drug Delivery.
Saltzman graduated from Iowa State University with a BS in chemical engineering and received graduate degrees in chemical engineering and medical engineering from MIT. He was appointed the Goizueta Foundation Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Yale in 2002. He was the founding chair of Yale’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and served in that role for 12 years. From 2016-2022, he was the Head of Jonathan Edwards College, one of Yale’s fourteen residential colleges.
Dr. Saltzman is an elected member of the US National Academy of Medicine and the US National Academy of Engineering.