Michael Mitchell

Michael Mitchell, Ph.D., is the Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science. Dr. Mitchell’s laboratory is a world leader in the discovery and development of biomaterials for overcoming biological barriers to drug delivery, with a particular focus on the development of next-generation LNPs for the delivery of mRNA, siRNA, and gene editing therapeutics. The laboratory has collaborated for multiple years with Penn’s Gene Therapy Program (GTP), which is directed by James M. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D. Prior to joining Penn in 2018, Dr. Mitchell was a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Robert S. Langer, Sc.D., of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.