Buddy Ratner, PhD

Professor, Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, University of Washington

Buddy Ratner is Professor, Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, University of Washington (UW), Director-UWEB21, co-director-Center for Dialysis Innovation and Darland Chair in Technology Commercialization. Received Ph.D. 1972 (polymers) from Polytechnic Institute Brooklyn. His specializations are biomaterials, biomedical engineering. He is a fellow AIMBE, AVS, AAAS, ACS, and Society For Biomaterials (SFB). Elected to National Academy Engineering, USA (2002). Awards include AVS Welch (2002), SFB Founders (2004), the BMES Pritzker Lecturer (2008), the Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal (2009), the Galletti Award (2011) the George Winter Award, European Society for Biomaterials (2012), UW Medicine Lifetime Innovator/Inventor Award (2014), ACS Bioelastomers Award (2021). He served as President of SFB (1998) and AIMBE (2002). He was lead editor, “Biomaterials Science: An Introduction to Materials in Medicine” (1st, 2nd and 3rd editions)