An interview with a Forbes 30 Under 30 scientist: Kaitlyn Sadtler

Kaitlyn Sadtler works at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) as an Earl Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator and Chief of the Section for Immunoengineering. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focusing on the molecular mechanisms of medical device fibrosis. During her time at MIT, Dr Sadtler was awarded an NRSA Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellowship and was listed on BioSpace’s 10 Life Science Innovators Under 40 to Watch. She has also been named as a TED Fellow (2018), delivering a TED talk listed as one of the 25 most viewed talks in 2018, and was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Science in 2019. Recent work includes leading the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) coronavirus serologic survey, which aims to determine the undetected extent of immunity (to the virus) from across the USA. The Biochemist spoke to Kaitlyn about her broader work on the immune system and its reaction to traumatic injury.