Principal Investigator

David Bark comes from Colorado State University, where he was an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering. He is a recent recipient of the prestigious American Heart Association (AHA) Career Development Award from the American Heart Association. He completed his Ph.D. in bioengineering and MS in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and completed his BS in mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. His postgraduate professional experience includes Research Fellow positions at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia; Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University; and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO. His postdoctoral research was supported by a National Institutes of Health (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute) F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship.