Guest Faculty / Rice Faculty

RICE FACULTY

Mary C. Farach-Carson, Ph.D., Vice Provost for Translational Bioscience, Scientific Director of 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 Director of Pediatric Cardiovascular Bioengineering Laboratory, 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., T.T. and W.F. 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 Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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GUEST FACULTY

Anthony Atala, M.D., W.H. Boyce Professor and Chair, Department of Urology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, and Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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

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

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., Professor and Associate Chair, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, and Director of Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

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

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, Chicago, Illinois, 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

Michael J. Miller, M.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Plastic Surgery, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio

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

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

Michael Sacks, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and W.A. “Tex” Moncrief, Jr. Simulation-Based Engineering Science Chair, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

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

Laura J. Suggs, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director of Laboratory for Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 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

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

Horst von Recum, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

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

Chrysanthi (Sandy) Williams, Ph.D., Biologics Business Unit Manager, ElectroForce Systems Group, Bose Corporation, Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Mark E.K. Wong, D.D.S., Chair and Program Director, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Texas School of Dentistry, and Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 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 Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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