Kristi Anseth

Kristi Anseth, PhD
Biomechanical Engineer
1968 -
INDUCTED 2002

Chemical and biological engineer Dr. Kristi Anseth is all about body parts. She is a leader in the burgeoning interdisciplinary area of “biomaterials,” which uses chemistry, biology, and engineering to devise replaceable body parts and tissue.

The University of Colorado-Boulder professor and her students develop new materials to build “scaffolds,” or templates, on which cells can grow to replace diseased or damaged parts, like knees, hips, and even some structures of the human heart.

A scaffold is really just recreated tissues, and if you think of it like a building, this is a framework from which other structures can be formed." — Dr. Kristi Anseth