Kaitlyn Sadtler

Regenerative tissue engineer

Kaitlyn Sadtler researches how our body can regenerate tissue through instructions from our immune system.

Why you should listen

Kaitlyn Sadtler is a postdoctoral fellow at MIT and received her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she discovered a certain type of immune cell -- the T cell -- was critical for muscle regeneration. This work was published in Science Magazine and has led to more findings in how our immune system responds to materials used in tissue engineering.

Kaitlyn Sadtler’s TED talk

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Kaitlyn Sadtler

How we could teach our bodies to heal faster

Posted Sep 2018

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