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

Jessica Butts, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

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

Uday Jammalamadaka, Ph.D., Lab Manager of Biomaterials Lab

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

Michael R. King, Ph.D., E.D. Butcher Chair of Bioengineering and CPRIT Scholar, Special Advisor to the Provost on Life Science Collaborations with the Texas Medical Center

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

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

Cynthia Reinhart-King, Ph.D., Incoming Department Chair and John W. Cox Chair of Bioengineering

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

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

GUEST FACULTY/SPEAKERS

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

Guillermo A. Ameer, D.Sc., Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Rena Bizios, Ph.D., Lutcher Brown Endowed Distinguished University Professor in Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

Maria Chatzinikolaidou, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

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

Lorenzo Deveza, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Eleonora Dondossola, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, 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, UTHealth Houston 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

Michael Floren, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, AlloSource Innovation Center, AlloSource, Centennial, Colorado

Manuela E. Gomes, Ph.D., Associate Professor, 3B’s Research Group, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

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

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

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, University of Tübingen, Reutlingen, Germany

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

Yasuhiko Tabata, Ph.D., D.Med.Sci., D.Pharm., Professor Emeritus, Specially Appointed Professor
Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Johnna S. Temenoff, Ph.D., Carol Ann and David D. Flanagan Professor, 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., 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

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

James J. Yoo, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Simon W. Young, D.D.S., M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director of Research, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry, Houston, Texas