David Schmidtke

Professor

david.schmidtke@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-5238
Office: UTSW EA EA 4.201B

800 West Campbell Rd.
Mailstop: BSB11
Richardson, TX 75080-3021

education

B.S. 08/26/1990, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Chemical Engineering
M.S. 12/20/1993, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, Chemical Engineering
Ph.D. 05/17/1997, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, Chemical Engineering

Overview

David W. Schmidtke is a Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT-Dallas) and has an adjunct position in the Department of Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW). Dr. Schmidtke received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin (1997) and completed his postdoctoral studies in the Institute of Medicine and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania (2000). Prior to joining UT-Dallas in 2014, Dr. Schmidtke was a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, and served as the Director of the University of Oklahoma Bioengineering Center. Dr. Schmidtke has published over 50 peer reviewed manuscripts and has received over $4 million in research funding for his group. Dr. Schmidtke has been a recipient of both an American Heart Association Scientist Development Award and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and has been funded by a number of agencies: American Heart Association, NSF, NIH, Department of Energy, DARPA.

Research Interests

Dr. Schmidtke carries out research in the areas of bioelectrocatalysis, cell adhesion, and micro/nanofabrication. One of the primary goals of the Schmidtke lab is to apply our engineering background to the development of new techniques, materials, and devices that address clinical and biological problems. In the area of bioelectrocatalysis, Dr. Schmidtke’s group uses redox polymers to electrically “wire” the redox centers of enzymes to electrode surfaces for both biosensing and miniature biofuel cell applications and employs the unique properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes to fabricate novel nanoscale biosensors. Dr. Schmidtke’s research interests in cell adhesion have focused on developing high-resolution/high-speed imaging techniques as well as micro- and nano-scale protein patterning methods for studying the biomechanics and biophysics of platelet and leukocyte adhesion under flow. More recently, Dr. Schmidtke’s research has focused on developing microfluidic devices to examine the wound healing process in the cornea, (ii) allow for non-viral transfection of cells, (iii) develop a screening assay for overactive bladder syndrome, and (iv) investigate the role of high shear exposure on inflammation in ventricular assist device recipients.