Guest Faculty / Rice Faculty

RICE FACULTY

Kyriacos A. Athanasiou, Ph.D., P.E., Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Bioengineering

Jeffrey D. Hartgerink, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Bioengineering

Lydia E. Kavraki, Ph.D., Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and Bioengineering

Antonios G. Mikos, Ph.D., Course Director, J.W. Cox Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Director of Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering, and Director of J.W. Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering

Junghae Suh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

James M. Tour, Ph.D., Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, and Director of Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory

Jennifer L. West, Ph.D., Isabel C. Cameron Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Director of Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering

Kyriacos Zygourakis, Ph.D., A.J. Hartsook Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Professor of Bioengineering, and Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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GUEST FACULTY

Anthony Atala, M.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Urology, and Director, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University Medical Center, Winston Salem, North Carolina

Rena Bizios, Ph.D., Peter T. Flawn Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Director, Cellular and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

Stephanie J. Bryant, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 

Arnold I. Caplan, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Director, Skeletal Research Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of  Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

Aylvin A. Dias, Ph.D., Research and Development Manager, DSM Biomedical Materials, Performance Materials Chemistry and Technology, Galeen, The Netherlands

Mary Dickinson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Rena N. D’Souza, D.D.S., Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Baylor College of Dentistry, Dallas, Texas

Mary C. Farach-Carson, Ph.D., Professor of Biological Sciences and of Materials Science and Engineering, and Director, Center for Translational Cancer Research, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware

Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Nanomedicine, The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas

Margaret A. Goodell, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics, and Director, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine (STaR) Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Karen K. Hirschi, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics and of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

John A. Jansen, D.D.S., Ph.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Periodontology and Biomaterials, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Peter C. Johnson, M.D., President and CEO, Scintellix, LLC, Raleigh, North Carolina

Hai Bang Lee, Ph.D., Distinguished Researcher, Medical Science Division, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon, Korea

Wei Liu, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Director, Shanghai Tissue Engineering Key Laboratory, Shanghai 9^th People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, and Chief Scientific Officer, National Tissue Engineering Center of China, Shanghai, China

Joseph A. Ludwig, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Sarcoma Medical Oncology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Athanasios Mantalaris, Ph.D., Reader in Biological Systems Engineering, Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, Kensington, United Kingdom 

David J. McQuillan, Ph.D., Vice President, Research, LifeCell Corporation, Branchburg, New Jersey

Stephanie A. Pangas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Kai Pinkernell, M.D., Senior Director, Regenerative Cell Technology, Cytori Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, California

A. Hari Reddi, Ph.D., Professor and Lawrence J. Ellison Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Director, Center for Tissue Regeneration and Repair, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California

Krishnendu Roy, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

Sonya Shortkroff, Ph.D., Director, Research, Histogenics Corporation, Waltham, Massachusetts

Vassilios I. Sikavitsas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

Paul J. Simmons, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Centre for Stem Cell Research, The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas

Laura J. Suggs, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

Yasuhiko Tabata, Ph.D., D.Med.Sc., D.Pharm., Professor and Chairman, Department of Biomaterials, Field of Tissue Engineering, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Bill Tawil, Ph.D., Director, Global Strategy, Baxter BioSurgery, Westlake Village, California, and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California

Panagiotis A. Tsonis, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, Director, Center for Tissue Regeneration and Engineering at Dayton, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio

Mark E.K. Wong, D.D.S., Chair and Program Director, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center Dental Branch at Houston, Houston, Texas

Michael J. Yaszemski, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo College of Medicine, Chair, Division of Spine Surgery, and Director, Polymeric Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Mayo College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota

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