{"id":427,"date":"2025-07-15T10:46:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/bme\/?page_id=427"},"modified":"2025-09-30T08:33:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:33:46","slug":"dacheng-ren","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/bme\/faculty\/dacheng-ren\/","title":{"rendered":"Dacheng Ren"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--x-small)\">Dacheng Ren<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0\"><em><em>Zeanah Professor<\/em> and Department Head<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-style-columns-reverse alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-002ffff5 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading orange-mark\">Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ren earned his&nbsp;BE&nbsp;in&nbsp;applied chemistry&nbsp;and&nbsp;electrical engineering&nbsp;from the&nbsp;Shanghai Jiao Tong University&nbsp;in 1996. He earned his&nbsp;Master of Engineering&nbsp;in&nbsp;chemical engineering&nbsp;from&nbsp;Tianjin University,&nbsp;China&nbsp;in 1999. Ren came to the United States in 1999 as a graduate student at the&nbsp;University of Connecticut.&nbsp;Upon completing his PhD in 2003, Ren worked as a postdoctoral associate in the chemical engineering department at&nbsp;Cornell University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2006, Ren began his career as professor of biomedical engineering at&nbsp;Syracuse University. He was awarded tenure in May 2011 and became a full professor in May 2016. Ren has published over 100 papers and books on biofilm related topics and holds 11 U.S. patents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2025-Present<br><\/strong>Zeanah Professor and Department Head, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2020-2025<\/strong><br>Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2017-2025<br><\/strong>Stevenson Endowed Professor, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Syracuse University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2016-2020<br><\/strong>Director, Syracuse Biomaterials Institute, Syracuse University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2016-2025<\/strong><br>Professor, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Syracuse University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2012-2016<\/strong><br>Associate Professor,\u00a0Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Syracuse University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2011-2018<\/strong><br>Director of Chemical Engineering Graduate Program, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Syracuse University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2006-2012<br><\/strong>Assistant Professor, &nbsp;Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Syracuse University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2003-2006<br><\/strong>Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 15%;height: 16px;margin-bottom: 24px;border-bottom: 6px solid #ff8200\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>PhD 2003, Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MS 1999, Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, China<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BE 1996, Applied Chemistry, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 15%;height: 16px;margin-bottom: 24px;border-bottom: 6px solid #ff8200\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Historically, our understanding of bacterial physiology and development of antibiotics have been focused on active planktonic (free-swimming) cells. However, the vast majority of bacteria in nature and medical environments exist in surface-attached biofilms with varying levels of dormancy. With up to 1,000 times higher tolerance to antibiotics and disinfectants compared to their planktonic counterparts, deleterious biofilms cause serious problems such as chronic infections in humans as well as persistent fouling and equipment failure in industry. Biofilms are blamed for billions of dollars of losses and more than 45,000 deaths annually in the U.S. alone. Despite the well-recognized significance of biofilms, the mechanisms of biofilm formation and bacterial dormancy are still not fully understood with many fundamental questions unanswered. Controlling biofilms and dormant cells is also challenging. To address these challenges, we conduct both basic and translational research with specific interests in bacteria-material interactions, novel antifouling materials, new agents for controlling biofilms and dormant cells, synthetic biology for microbial control, and smart and safer medical devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Expertise<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xx-small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xx-small)\">Biomaterials<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xx-small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xx-small)\">Medical devices<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xx-small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xx-small)\">Biotechnology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xx-small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xx-small)\">Synthetic Biology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xx-small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xx-small)\">Bacterial control<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 15%;height: 16px;margin-bottom: 24px;border-bottom: 6px solid #ff8200\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professional Service<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>AIMBE Fellow<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Editorial Board of Elsevier&#8217;s <em>Biofilm<\/em> journals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 15%;height: 16px;margin-bottom: 24px;border-bottom: 6px solid #ff8200\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awards and Recognition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chancellor\u2019s citation for Faculty Excellence &amp; Scholarly Distinction, Syracuse University, 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Faculty Excellence Award, School of Engineering &amp; Computer Science, Syracuse University, 2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NSF CAREER Award, 2011-2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>College Technology Educator of the Year by the Technology Alliance of Central New York (TACNY), 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Early Career Translational Research Award in Biomedical Engineering, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, 2009<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 15%;height: 16px;margin-bottom: 24px;border-bottom: 6px solid #ff8200\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a complete list of recent publications, see <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=85Ty0hAAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\">Google Scholar<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Yikang Xu and <strong>Dacheng Ren<\/strong>. \u201cA novel inductively coupled capacitor wireless sensor system for rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing.\u201d Journal of Biological Engineering. 17, Article number: 54 (2023).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>72. Sang Won Lee, Erick L. Johnson, J. Alex Chediak, Hainsworth Shin, Yi Wang, K. Scott Phillips and <strong>Dacheng Ren<\/strong>. \u201cHigh-Throughput Biofilm Assay to Investigate Bacterial Interactions with Surface Topographies.\u201d ACS Applied Bio Materials. 5: 3816-3825 (2022).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sweta Roy, Ali Adem Bahar, Huan Gu, Shikha Nangia, Karin Sauer and <strong>Dacheng Ren<\/strong>. \u201cPersister Control by Leveraging Dormancy Associated Reduction of Antibiotic Efflux.\u201d PLOS Pathogens. 17(12): e1010144 (2021).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sang Won Lee, Joseph Carnicelli, Dariya Getya, Ivan Gitsov, K. Scott Phillips and <strong>Dacheng Ren<\/strong>. \u201cBiofilm Removal by Reversible Shape Recovery of the Substrate.\u201d ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces. 13 (15): 17174\u201317182 (2021)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sang Won Lee, K. Scott Phillips, Huan Gu, Mehdi Kazemzadeh-Narbat, <strong>Dacheng Ren<\/strong>. \u201cHow microbes read the map: effects of implant topography on bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation.\u201d Biomaterials. 268: 120595 (2021).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Huan Gu, Sang Won Lee, Joseph Carnicelli, Teng Zhang, and <strong>Dacheng Ren<\/strong>. \u201cMagnetically driven active topography for long-term biofilm control\u201d. Nature Communications. 11: Article number: 2211 (2020).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yikang Xu, Yousr Dhaouadi, Paul Stoodley, and <strong>Dacheng Ren<\/strong>, \u201cSensing the unreachable: challenges and opportunities in biofilm detection\u201d. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 64: 79-84 (2020).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a full list of publications, please visit his <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=85Ty0hAAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\">Google Scholar profile.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column pull-right is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull utkwds-stack-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-390953e2 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-002ffff5 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column utkwds-stack has-light-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-1e559e63 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-top-style:none;border-top-width:0px;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small)\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/bme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/dacheng-ren.jpg\" alt=\"Dacheng Ren\" class=\"wp-image-728\" style=\"border-bottom-color:var(--wp--preset--color--orange);border-bottom-width:5px;aspect-ratio:2\/3;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/bme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/dacheng-ren.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/bme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/dacheng-ren-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-5f1e30ea wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">301 Perkins Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Phone<\/strong><br>865-974-0679<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Email<br><\/strong><a href=\"mailto:xzhao9@utk.edu\">dren3<\/a><a href=\"mailto:dren3@utk.edu\">@utk.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dacheng Ren Zeanah Professor and Department Head Biography Ren earned his&nbsp;BE&nbsp;in&nbsp;applied chemistry&nbsp;and&nbsp;electrical engineering&nbsp;from the&nbsp;Shanghai Jiao Tong University&nbsp;in 1996. He earned his&nbsp;Master of Engineering&nbsp;in&nbsp;chemical engineering&nbsp;from&nbsp;Tianjin University,&nbsp;China&nbsp;in 1999. 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