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RICE FACULTY

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

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

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

Jeffrey G. Jacot, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Rice University, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Surgery, 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

Deepak Nagrath, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular 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

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

Tim Bertram, D.V.D., Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Science and Technology, Tengion, Inc.,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., Patten Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Director, Biomaterials and Functional Tissue Engineering Laboratory, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado 

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

Mary E. Dickinson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, and Director, Confocals Laboratory, 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

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

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 Biomaterials, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and Professor of Dental Implant and Osseointegration Research Chair, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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

Robert L. Jones, Jr., Ph.D., Staff Scientist, DSM PTG, Berkeley, California

Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., Vice President for Health Affairs, Van Dusen Endowed Chair Professor of Academic Medicine, and Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Chemical, Biomolecular and Materials Engineering, University of Connecticut, and Dean, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut 

David J. McQuillan, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Advanced Research and Technology, LifeCell Corporation, Branchburg, New Jersey

David J. Mooney, Ph.D., Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering, Associate Dean, Chemical/Biological Sciences and Engineering, and Director, Laboratory for Cell and Tissue Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Core Member of Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts 

George Muschler, M.D., Director, Orthopaedic and Rheumatologic Research Center, and Vice Chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, Research Associate, Office of Clinical Effectiveness, and Member, Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic, Director, Clinical Tissue Engineering Center, and Co-Director, Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio

Anthony Ratcliffe, Ph.D., President and CEO, Synthasome Inc., San Diego, California

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

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, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas

Laura J. Suggs, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director, Laboratory for Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering, The University of Texas at 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 J. Tawil, Ph.D., M.B.A., Director, Global Expansion, Regenerative Medicine, Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Westlake Village, California, and Adjunct Assistant 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 (TREND), University of Dayton, Ohio

William R. Wagner, Ph.D., Deputy Director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Professor of Surgery, Bioengineering, and Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 

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, and Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center Medical School 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

James J. Yoo, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Director and Chief Scientific Officer, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Associate Professor of Urology, Physiology and Pharmacology, and Biomedical Engineering, Wake Forest University Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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