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Brittany L. Taylor is a biomedical engineer and an assistant professor at the University of Florida's J.Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Early Life, Education and Career
Brittany was born and raised in Spostsylvania, Virginia. Coming from a large family with seven siblings, she is the first in her family to obtain a college degree. From a young age, Brittany always had an interest in figuring out how things worked and would take apart remotes and reconstructed them. Her interest in biomedical engineering was sparked when she overheard a conversation between a classmate and a high school counselor about the field. After high school, she attended the University of Virginia (UVA) and earned a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering with a concentration in biomaterials and tissue engineering. At UVA, Brittany was involved in the research under the mentorship of Dr. Edward Botchwey and Dr.Cato Laurencin. After her time at UVA, she completed a one-year post-baccalaureate program through the National Institute of Health at Virginia Tech under the mentorship of Dr. Joseph Freeman. She went on to obtain a doctoral degree at Rutgers University in biomedical engineering, where her research focused on the characterization and generation of 3D bone scaffolds for large bone defects. After earning her doctoral degree, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, where her research focused on delivery systems for tendon healing and the role of collagen in tendon inflammation. Her research lab at the University of Florida focuses on investigating the regenerative and reparative processes of musculoskeletal tissues to inform the development of tailored multiscale engineering approaches to overcome healing deficiencies and complement the healing response. She has co-authored 35+ peer-reviewed journal articles, five book chapters, two patents, and numerous national and international conference proceedings in the field of musculoskeletal tissue engineering. Her motivation to pursue a research career in the orthopedic field is inspired by some of her family members who have experienced orthopedic injuries.

Personal Life
Dr. Taylor is passionate about mentorship. She strongly believes a significant part of being successful in academia is the ability to mentor and be mentored throughout the academic pipeline. During her time at UVA, Rutgers University, and the University of Pennsylvania, she was involved with and started several organizations that focused on providing resources and community for underrepresented minorities to have exposure to the STEM field. She is the co-founder of PennVIEW, a recruiting initiative for under-represented minority postdocs to visit Penn and meet with potential future advisors, and Mentoring Circles, which is a tiered mentoring network of participants ranging from the undergraduate to the Professor level. Dr. Taylor is also the former Co-President of the Penn Biomedical Postdoctoral Council and a member of the McKay DEI committee, Penn’s Research Integrity Promotes Excellent Research (PIPER) Task Force and Penn Biomedical Postdoctoral Programs Advisory Board. In addition to her passion about mentorship, some of her other interest includes running, fitness and gardening.

Honors and Awards
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Enrichment Program Award

• Bristol Myers Squibb-UNCF Ernest E. Just Postgraduate Associate Fellow

• Top 100 Inspiring Black Scientists in America (list published in CellPress CrossTalk)

• MIT Rising Star in Biomedical Science

• Orthopaedic Research Society Tendon Section Conference Trainee Travel Grant Award

• 2018 Mid-Atlantic PREP/IMSD Research Symposium (MAPRS) Distinguished Alumni Award

• Mack Technology Fellow (Penn Wharton School of Business Entrepreneurship Program)

• University of Pennsylvania Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Biomedical Engineering Society Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Student Fellow

• NIH T32 Biotechnology Training Predoctoral Fellow (T32 GM8339)

• NSF Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Fellow

• St. Jude National Graduate Student Symposium Fellow

• National Science Foundation Graduate STEM Fellow in K-12 Education (GK-12)

Selected Publications and Patents
Dr. Taylor has several publications within her field, and which has been cited over 200 times.


 * 1) Taylor, BL, Kim DH, Huegel J, Burkholder S, Weiss S, Nuss C, Raja H, Soslowsky LJ, Mauck RL, Kuntz AF, Bernstein J. Localized Delivery of Ibuprofen via a Bilayer Delivery System (BiLDS) for Supraspinatus Tendon Healing in a Rat Model. Journal of Orthopaedic Research (2020) (available online: https://doi : 10.1002/jor.24670)
 * 2) Kim, DH., Huegel J., Taylor BL., Nuss C., Weiss S., Soslowsky LJ, Mauck R., Kuntz AF. Biocompatibility and Bioactivity of an FGF-Loaded Microsphere-Based Bilayer Delivery System. Acta Biomaterialia (2020) (available online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2020.04.048 )
 * 3) Taylor, B.L., Perez, X., Ciprano, J., Freeman, O., Goldstein, A., Freeman, J.W. Three-Dimensional Porous Trabecular Scaffold Exhibits Osteoconductive Behaviors in Vitro. Regenerative Engineering and Translational Medicine (2019) (doi: 10.1007/s40883-018-0084-9)
 * 4) Taylor, B.L., Indano, S., Yankannah, Y., Patel, P., Perez, I., Freeman, J.W. Decellularized Cortical Bone Scaffold Promotes Organized Neovascularization In Vivo. Tissue Engineering, Part A. 25(13-14):p. 964- 977 (2019) (doi: 10.1089/ten.tea.2018.0225)
 * 5) Patel, P., Buckley, C., Taylor, B.L., Sahyoun, C., Patel, S., Mont, A., Mai, L., Patel, S., Freeman, J.W. Mechanical and Biological Evaluation of a Hydroxyapatite-Reinforced Scaffold.

Patents
1. Freeman, J.W., Taylor, B.L., Pushpendra, Patel. (2020). U.S. Patent No. 10,524,915 B2. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trade Office.

2. Freeman, J.W., Taylor, B.L., Pushpendra, Patel. “Three-Dimensional Pre-Vascularized Scaffold for Bone Regeneration,” International Patent Appl. No. PCT/US15/64757.