Associate Director, Division of Developmental Biology
Director, Molecular & Developmental Biology Graduate Program
Member, Division of Plastic Surgery
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Samantha A. Brugmann, PhD, is a professor for the Divisions of Developmental Biology and Plastic Surgery at Cincinnati Children's within the UC Department of Pediatrics. She received her bachelors of science in cell and molecular biology from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. She then obtained her PhD in genetics from George Washington University in Washington, DC where she studied cranial sensory placode development in Xenopus laevis. She performed her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University where her research focused on craniofacial development. While at Stanford she received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows (F32), a Pediatric Research Fund-Child Health Research Program Grant and a NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99 / R00). She joined Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in January 2011 to study craniofacial development and disease.