Guest Faculty / Rice Faculty

RICE FACULTY

Mary C. Farach-Carson, Ph.D., Associate Vice Provost for Research and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering

K. Jane Grande-Allen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Bioengineering

Jeffrey G. Jacot, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Rice University, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Division of Congenital Heart Surgery, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

F. Kurtis Kasper, Ph.D., Faculty Fellow of Bioengineering

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

Antonios G. Mikos, Ph.D., Course Director, Louis Calder 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, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Jennifer L. West, Ph.D., Isabel C. Cameron Professor of Bioengineering, Professor of  Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Chair of the Department of 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., W. Boyce Professor and Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Chair, Department of Urology, 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, Texas

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

Yilin Cao, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Plastic Surgery, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Vice Dean, Shanghai 9th People's Hospital, Chairman, Department of Plastic Surgery, Director, Shanghai Tissue Engineering Center, and Director, Shanghai Institute of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shanghai, China

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

Mary Dickinson, Ph.D., Associate Professor 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

Christopher V. Gemmiti, Ph.D., Product Director, Oral Regeneration, Organogenesis Inc., Canton, Massachusetts

WT Godbey, Ph.D., Paul H. and Donna D. Flower Assistant Professor of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

Karen K. Hirschi, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics and of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Deputy Director, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine (STaR) Center, 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, and Excutive Vice President and Chief Business Officer, Entegrion, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Athanasios Mantalaris, Ph.D., Reader in Biological Systems Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, 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

Glenn D. Prestwich, Ph.D., Presidential Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah

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, Texas

Vassilios I. Sikavitsas, Ph.D., Associate 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, Texas

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

Richard K. Suzuki, Ph.D., Director, Research and Development for Biomaterial Engineering, SpineSmith Partners, L.P., Austin, Texas

Yasuhiko Tabata, Ph.D., D.Med.Sci., 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

Johnna S. Temenoff, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

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

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

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