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Dr. Kaitlin Fogg is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Davis, where she focused on tissue engineering for bone and wound repair under the mentorship of Dr. Kent Leach. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cancer systems biology with Dr. Pamela Kreeger at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, integrating in vitro models with computational approaches to study immune regulation in ovarian cancer. Her training was supported by an American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship and a Scientific Scholar Award from the Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research.
Since joining OSU in 2019, Dr. Fogg has built a nationally recognized research program at the intersection of women’s health and engineering. Her lab develops advanced 3D models of gynecological tissues and computational tools for high-throughput drug screening and mechanistic discovery. Supported by NIH R35 and R21 awards, her work investigates how the menstrual cycle influences drug delivery, how nanoplastics from menstrual products and environmental sources impact gynecological health, and how biomaterial and epithelial models can illuminate disease progression in cervical cancer and endometriosis. She has received national honors including the Young Innovator Award from Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering and the Emerging Scholar in Biomaterials Award from the Society for Biomaterials.