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Jenny Robinson

Assistant professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine

Engineering and design, Health

jrobins1@uw.edu

Web / Pronouns: she/her

Expertise: Tissue regeneration after sports injury, biomaterials for regeneration, sex differences in sports injury and regeneration, cartilage and fibrocartilage biology

Jenny Robinson is also the endowed chair in Women’s Sports Medicine and Lifetime Fitness and core faculty in the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine.

Robinson’s current research is motivated by a soccer injury she had when she was younger. She is also passionate about inclusion in the science, technology, engineering and math fields.