PhD, Bioengineering, 2001 - University of Washington
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Biomedical Engineering & Electrical Engineering, 
Todd C. McDevitt
Petit Faculty Fellow for the Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience; Assistant Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Biography
Todd C. McDevitt, Ph.D., graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) from Duke University in 1997 after double majoring in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. Todd received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Washington in 2001. He completed his dissertation research in the laboratory of Patrick Stayton, Ph.D., working on protein engineering and micropatterning techniques to spatially control cell assembly for cardiac and skeletal muscle tissue engineering. In 2001, Todd joined Dr. Chuck Murry's lab in the Department of Pathology as a post-doctoral fellow. His post-doctoral research focused on signaling pathways mediating proliferation of cardiomyocytes derived from stem cells for the purpose of myocardial repair.
In August of 2004, Dr. McDevitt became an Assistant Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology / Emory University and in September of 2009, McDevitt was appointed as a Petit Faculty Fellow in the Institute for Bioengineering and Biocience. The McDevitt laboratory is now focused on engineering approaches to translate the potential of stem cells into viable regenerative therapies and in vitro diagnostics.
Awards
UK-US Stem Cell Collaboration Development Award (2008)
Merck "Best Overall" poster at SBE Stem Cell Engineering Conference (2008)
New Investigator Award, American Heart Association (2004)
Cardiovascular Bioengineering Training Grant fellow (2002-2004)
For full list, please see CV
Patents
McDevitt TC, Nair R. Acellularized tissues derived from differentiating embryonic stem cells. Utility patent filed November 8, 2006.
Stayton PS, McDevitt TC, Nelson KE. Streptavidin mutants having secondary functional domains. U.S. patent 6,419,934, issued July 2, 2002.
Publications