Joint Professor, Bioengineering & Chemical Engineering
Adjunct Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Michael L. & Myrna Darland Endowed Chair in Technology Commercialization
Ph.D., Polymer Chemistry, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1972
B.S., Chemistry, Brooklyn College, 1967
Foege Hall N330J
(206) 685-1005
ratner@uw.edu
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Buddy D. Ratner is the Director of the University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials (UWEB21) Engineering Research Center, co-director of the Center for Dialysis Innovation (CDI) and the Darland Endowed Chair in Technology Commercialization. He is Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, University of Washington. Ratner received his Ph.D. (1972) in polymer chemistry from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
Buddy Ratner is a world-respected leader in biomaterials and biomedical engineering. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), AVS, AAAS, American Chemical Society, ACS-POLY and the International College of Fellows Biomaterials Science and Engineering. In 2002 Ratner was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, USA. He has been involved in the launch of seven companies. He served as President of Society For Biomaterials in 1998 and President of AIMBE in 2002. He was lead editor of the textbook, “Biomaterials Science: An Introduction to Materials in Medicine” (1st, 2nd and 3rd editions) — the book has sold over 40,000 copies and is used in most biomaterials education programs, worldwide.
Some of the awards and honors that Dr. Ratner has received include:
- (2021) Bioelastomer Award, American Chemical Society Rubber Division
- (2020) AVS67 Virtual Showcase Photo Contest, 1st prize
- (2020) Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, Full membership
- (2020) Kidney-X Phase II prize
- (2020) 2020 Technology, Innovation & Development Award-Society For Biomaterials (to Buddy Ratner, Dave Castner, Lara Gamble for 35 years of NESAC/BIO)
- (2019) AVS Travel Photography Award, 1st prize
- (2017) Honorary Professor of Shanghai University (2017-2020)
- (2016) Kammermeyer Lecturer, University of Iowa
- (2015) Most Cited Paper Award, Annals of Biomedical Engineering
- (2015) Langmuir Lecture, American Chemical Society (COLL Division)
- (2015) Distinguished Service Award, ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry
- (2014) UW School of Medicine 2014 Lifetime Innovator and Inventor Award
- (2012) Honorary Professor of Sichuan University
- (2012) George Winter Award, European Society for Biomaterials
- (2011) Fellow, American Chemical Society
- (2011) Galletti Award of the American Institute of Medical & Biological Engineering
- (2010) Annual Faculty Lecturer, University of Washington
- (2010) McGowan Distinguished Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh
- (2009) Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal Award
- (2009) Chandra P. Sharma Award, Society for Biomaterials & Artificial Organs (India)
- (2008) Listed in AIChE’s “One Hundred Chemical Engineers of the Modern Era”
- (2008) J. Edward Berk Lecture Medal
- (2008) BMES Pritzker Distinguished Lecturer Award
- (2007) Bayer Lectureship, University of Akron
- (2004) Founders Award, Society for Biomaterials
- (2002) Medard W. Welch Award, American Vacuum Society