RICE FACULTY

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

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

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

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

Katie Hogan, B.S., Graduate Student, Department of Bioengineering

Lydia E. Kavraki, Ph.D., Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Bioengineering, Director of Ken Kennedy Institute, and Director of Physical and Biological Computing Laboratory

Peter Lwigale, Ph.D., Associate Professor of BioSciences

Kevin McHugh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research

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

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

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

Mohammad Albanna, Ph.D., Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Humabiologics, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona

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

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

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

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

Eleonora Dondossola, Ph.D., Instructor, Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology – Research, Division of Cancer Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Mary C. Farach-Carson, Ph.D., Professor of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences and Associate Dean for Research, University of Texas Health 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

Warren L. Grayson, Ph.D., Director, Laboratory for Craniofacial and Orthopaedic Tissue Engineering, Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

Petros T. Koidis, D.D.S., Ph.D., Professor of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, M.D., Sc.D., Robert C Hickey Chair in Clinical Care, Deputy Head, Division of Internal Medicine,
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Brenda Ogle, Ph.D., Director, Stem Cell Institute, Professor and Department Head, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Anthony Ratcliffe, Ph.D., President and CEO, Synthasome, Inc., San Diego, 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 Natural and Medical Sciences Institute (NMI) at 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 Life and Medical Sciences (LiMe), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Johnna S. Temenoff, Ph.D., Carol Ann and David D. Flanagan Professor, Deputy Director, NSF Engineering Research Center for Cell Manufacturing Technologies, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

Venu G. Varanasi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Bone Muscle Research Center, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas

William R. Wagner, Ph.D., Director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Distinguished 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

Anthony S. Weiss, Ph.D., McCaughey Chair in Biochemistry, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, National Health and Medical Research Council Leadership Fellow, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Mark E.K. Wong, D.D.S., Chair and Program Director, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Texas School of Dentistry, and Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 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

Simon W. Young, D.D.S., M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director of Research, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Dentistry, Houston, Texas

Hai Lin, Ph.D., Professor, National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials and School of Biomedical Engineering in Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

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