Gang Bao, Ph.D., Foyt Family Professor of Bioengineering and CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research

Caleb J. Bashor, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Assistant Professor of BioSciences

K. Jane Grande-Allen, Ph.D., Isabel C. Cameron Professor of Bioengineering and Department Chair, and Director of Integrative Matrix Mechanics Laboratory

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

Isaac B. Hilton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Assistant Professor of BioSciences and CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research

Anthony J. Melchiorri, Ph.D., Associate Director of Biomaterials Lab

Antonios G. Mikos, Ph.D., Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Director of NIH Center for Engineering Complex Tissues, Director of Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering, and Director of J.W. Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering

Jordan S. Miller, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Jacob T. Robinson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Omid Veiseh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research

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

GUEST FACULTY/SPEAKERS

Rena Bizios, Ph.D., Lutcher Brown Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Cellular and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

Jason A. Burdick, Ph.D., Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Arnold I. Caplan, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, Professor of General Medical Sciences (Oncology), and Director of Skeletal Research Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

George J. Christ, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery, Mary Muilenburg Stamp Professor of Orthopaedic Research, Director of Basic and Translational Research in Orthopaedic Surgery, Head of Laboratory of Regenerative Therapeutics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Elizabeth M. Cosgriff-Hernández, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

Eleonora Dondossola, Ph.D., Instructor, The Genitourinary Medical Oncology Department, M.D. Anderson, Houston, Texas

Mary C. Farach-Carson, Ph.D., Professor of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences and Director of Clinical and Translational Research, University of Texas School of Dentistry, Houston, Texas

John P. Fisher, Ph.D., Fischell Family Distinguished Professor and Department Chair, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Brian Ginn, Ph.D., Secant Group, LLC, Telford, Pennsylvania

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

Ali Khademhosseini, Ph.D., Professor of Bioengineering, Radiology, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Director of Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics (C-MIT), Los Angeles, California

Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, M.D., Sc.D., Texas 4000 Distinguished Endowed Professor for Cancer Research, Deputy Head, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Michael T. Longaker, M.D., M.B.A., D.Sc. (hon), Deane P. and Louise Mitchell Professor,
Vice Chair of Department of Surgery, Co-Director of Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Director of Program in Regenerative Medicine, Director of Children’s Surgical Research, Professor by Courtesy of Department of Bioengineering, Professor by Courtesy of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California

Helen H. Lu, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York

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

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

Katja Schenke-Layland, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Technologies and Regenerative Medicine, Department for Women’s Health, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany and Director of the Natural and Medical Sciences Institute (NMI) at the University of Tübingen, Reutlingen, Germany

Heungsoo Shin, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

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

Reginald Stilwell, Director, AlloSource Innovation Center (AIC), AlloSource, Centennial, Colorado

Yasuhiko Tabata, Ph.D., D.Med.Sci., D.Pharm., Professor and Chairman, Laboratory of Biomaterials, Department of Regeneration Science and Engineering, Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Johnna S. Temenoff, Ph.D., Carol Ann and David D. Flanagan Professor, Deputy Director, NSF Engineering Research Center on Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT), Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech/Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

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

Xiumei Wang, Ph.D., Professor, Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Biomimetic Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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

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

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

Shengmin Zhang, Ph.D., Chair Professor and Director of Advanced Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Founding Chair of China-Korea Center for Biomaterials and Nano-Biotechnology, Wuhan, China