Mark Blenner

Thomas & Kipp Gutshall Career Development 

Professor, University of Delaware

NSF CREATE Biofoundry Director

Associate Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

GAANN Inclusive Teaching in ChE Director

NIH & AHA Postdoc Fellow, Harvard Medical School

PhD Chemical Engineering, Columbia Univeristy
BS Chemical Engineering, Manhattan College

Dr. Blenner's interest is generating systems level data and synthetic biology tools to speed the design, build, test cycle for yeast, mammalian cells, and microbial communities. His group is interested in solving problems in complex environments, such as biomanufacturing, and wild environments outside the lab.

 

He views the most important part of his job as helping students develop as independent creative critical thinkers. Graduate students and typically create their projects under Dr. Blenner's guidance. 

 

Dr. Blenner has won numerous awards including the PECASE, the 2025 Langer Prize for Entrepreneurship and innovation, the 2022 Biochemical Engineering Journal Young investigator Aware,  2022 AIChE Division 15 Early Career Award, and the 2021 ACS BIOT Young Investigator Award.