Scott Verbridge, Ph.D.

Dr. Verbridge is the Director of the NIDCR Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial (DOC) Regenerative Medicine Program within the Division of Extramural Research. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University, with a focus on bio-nanoelectromechanical systems (bio-NEMS). His postdoctoral research was carried out in the Cornell Departments of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, with a focus on developing micro-engineered tissue-engineered models of tumor angiogenesis. Dr. Verbridge then spent over a decade as a Principal Investigator in the Virginia Tech – Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences. There his laboratory leveraged tissue engineering approaches to explore novel concepts in targeting the tumor microenvironment, as well as to model the role of host-microbe interactions in the acquisition of the hallmarks of cancer. Dr. Verbridge is currently overseeing projects involving both basic and translational approaches to the reconstruction, repair, and regeneration of dental, oral, and craniofacial tissues.