KEYNOTE SPEAKER
	Dennis E. Discher, Ph.D. Robert D. Bent Chaired Professor University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

 

 

 

RICE FACULTY

Gang Bao, Ph.D., Foyt Family Professor of Bioengineering

Mary C. Farach-Carson, Ph.D., Vice Provost for Translational Bioscience, Scientific Director of BioScience Research Collaborative, Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, and Professor of Bioengineering

K. Jane Grande-Allen, Ph.D., Professor of Bioengineering, Associate Chair, External Partnerships, and Director of Integrative Matrix Mechanics Laboratory

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

Lydia E. Kavraki, Ph.D., Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Bioengineering, and Director of Physical and Biological Computing Laboratory

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 Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering, and Director of J.W. Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering

Junghae Suh, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Director of Synthetic Virology Laboratory

Jeffrey J. Tabor, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

James M. Tour, Ph.D., T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

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

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

GUEST FACULTY

Nathaniel Bachrach, Ph.D., Vice President, Research and Development, LifeCell Corporation, Branchburg, New Jersey

Rena Bizios, Ph.D., Peter T. Flawn Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of 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, Skeletal Research Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

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

Elizabeth M. Cosgriff-Hernández, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

Mary E. Dickinson, Ph.D., Professor and Kyle and Josephine Morrow Endowed Chair, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Rena N. D’Souza, D.D.S., Ph.D., Associate Vice Provost for Research and Professor of Dentistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Dennis E. Discher, Ph.D., Robert D. Bent Chaired Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

John P. Fisher, Ph.D., Robert E. Fischell Professor & Chair, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Peter Gabriele, Vice President of Corporate Technology Development, Secant Medical, Inc., Telford, Pennsylvania

Rosemarie Hunziker, Ph.D., Program Director, Tissue Engineering/Regenerative Medicine, Biomaterials, and Implantable Medical Devices, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

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

Peter C. Johnson, M.D., Principal, MedSurgPI, LLC and President and CEO, Scintellix, LLC, Raleigh, North Carolina

Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, M.D., Sc.D., Frances King Black Endowed Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, and Deputy Head, Division of Internal Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Joseph A. Ludwig, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Sarcoma Medical Oncology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

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

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

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

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

Andrew G. Sikora, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

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

Johnna S. Temenoff, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and 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

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

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

James J. Yoo, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Simon Young, D.D.S., M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Texas School of Dentistry, Houston, Texas

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