Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Email: bdc68@cornell.edu

Curriculum vitae: PDF

Dr. Cosgrove earned a Bachelor’s in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, a PhD in Bioengineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Dr. Douglas Lauffenburger and Dr. Linda Griffith, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford University School of Medicine with Dr. Helen Blau. His research has been supported by a Whitaker Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a Stanford Molecular Imaging Scholars Fellowship, multiple NIH Awards, and a Glenn Medical Research Foundation/American Federation for Aging Research Grant for Junior Faculty. Ben has been recognized by a Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Graduate Research Award (2008), a Rising Star Award from the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Special Interest Group of BMES (2015), and a Young Innovator of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Award (2017). His research group develops and implements systems biology and biomaterials engineering approaches to study how cell-cell communication and signal transduction networks regulate stem and progenitor cell function in skeletal muscle regeneration, and how these processes become dysfunctional in aging and muscular dystrophies.