RICE FACULTY

Gang Bao, Ph.D.
Foyt Family Professor of Bioengineering, Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, and CPRIT Scholar of 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.
Senior Associate Dean of Engineering and Computing, 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 of Cancer Research

 

Lydia E. Kavraki, Ph.D.
Kenneth and Audrey Kennedy Professor of Computing, Professor of Computer Science with joint appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Bioengineering; Director of Ken Kennedy Institute
 

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.
Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Associate Professor of Chemistry, and CPRIT Scholar of 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, Member of Ken Kennedy Institute, and CEO and Co-Founder of Motif Neurotech, Inc.

 

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

 

Omid Veiseh, Ph.D.
Professor of Bioengineering, CPRIT Scholar of 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

 
 

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

 

Thomas Boland, Ph.D.
Professor of Metallurgical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering (MMBME) and Director of Biomedical Engineering Program, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas

 

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

 
 

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

 
 

Luis A. Diaz Gomez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacy, and Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Institute of Materials (iMATUS) and Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

 

Eleonora Dondossola, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor 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

 
 

Eliza Fong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Investigator at the N.1 Institute for Health, Associate Investigator at the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore

 

Teja Guda, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Graduate School, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Jacobson Distinguished Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Professor, Program Director, Biomedical Technology Commercialization, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
 

Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, M.D., Sc.D.
Robert C. Hickey Chair in Clinical Care, 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

 

Lorenzo Moroni, Ph.D.
Professor in Biofabrication for Regenerative Medicine, Complex Tissue Regeneration Department, Director of MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
 

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 of Bioengineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

 
 

Yasuhiko Tabata, Ph.D., D.Med.Sci., D.Pharm.
Professor Emeritus, Special Professor (full-time), Tabata’s Group “Cell Biotechnology,” Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, 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

 

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 Young, D.D.S., M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Director of Research, Interim Chair for Katz Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The 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