RICE FACULTY

Gang Bao, Ph.D., Foyt Family Professor of Bioengineering, Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, 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., Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Isabel C. Cameron Professor of Bioengineering, and Director of Integrative Matrix Mechanics Laboratory

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

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, Associate Vice President for Research, and 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., 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., Department Chair and John W. Cox Chair of Bioengineering

Jacob T. Robinson, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Bioengineering, and CEO and Co-Founder of Motif Neurotech, Inc.

Christina M. Tringides, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, and Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, CPRIT Scholar

Omid Veiseh, Ph.D., Professor of Bioengineering, CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research, and Director of Rice Biotechnology Launch Pad

GUEST FACULTY/SPEAKERS

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

Carmen Alvarez-Lorenzo, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology and Head of Institute of Materials, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Guillermo A. Ameer, Sc.D., 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

Athina Bakopoulou, D.D.S., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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

Maria Chatzinikolaidou, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 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, University of Texas Health School of Dentistry, Houston, Texas

John P. Fisher, Ph.D., Distinguished University 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

Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, M.D., Sc.D., Robert C. Hickey Chair in Clinical Care, Deputy Head for Research, 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

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 and Chairman, Laboratory of Biomaterials, Department of Regeneration Science and Engineering, Institute for Life and Medical Sciences (LiMe), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Alexander Tatara, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas

Johnna S. Temenoff, Ph.D., W.H. Coulter Distinguished Chair, 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, University of Texas 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 and Professor, 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, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Dentistry, Houston, Texas

Shengmin Zhang, Ph.D., Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director of Advanced Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Center, and Dean of Institute of Regulatory Science for Medical Devices, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China