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RICE FACULTY

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

K. Jane Grande-Allen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Bioengineering, and Director of Integrative Matrix Mechanics Laboratory

Jeffrey G. Jacot, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Rice University, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Congenital Heart Surgery Services, 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, Professor of Bioengineering, and Director of Physical and Biological Computing Laboratory

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, and Director of Laboratory for Nanotherapeutics Research

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, Chair of the Department of Bioengineering, and Director, Laboratory for Biofunctional Materials/Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering

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

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 Associate 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

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

Fu-Zhai Cui, Ph.D., Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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

John P. Fisher, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, and Director, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

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

Robert E. Guldberg, Ph.D., Director, Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

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 Dental Implant and Osseointegration Research Chair, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Peter C. Johnson, M.D., Vice President, Research and Development, Avery Dennison Medical Solutions, and President and CEO, Scintellix, LLC, Raleigh, North Carolina

Brendan Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics, and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

David J. McQuillan, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Advanced Research and Technology, Kinetic Concepts, Inc., Branchburg, New Jersey

Daniel L. Mooradian, Ph.D., Vice President of Research and Development, Synovis Life Technologies, Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota

George F. 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

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

Johnna S. Temenoff, Ph.D., Associate 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 

Joseph C. Wenke, Ph.D., Manager, Extremity Trauma and Regenerative Medicine Task Area, and Manager, Orthopaedic Extremity Trauma Research Program, United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, Fort Sam Houston, Texas

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, Director, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Laboratory, and Director, Bone Histomorphometry 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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