Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigators 2019

TY - JOUR

T1 - Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigators 2019

AU - Elisseeff, J.

N1 - Funding Information: John T. Wilson is an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He received his B.S. in Bioengineering from Oregon State University and his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in the laboratory of Professor Elliot L. Chaikof, where he was awarded a Whitaker Foundation Graduate Fellowship. He then joined the laboratory of Professor Patrick Stayton at the University of Washington with the support of a Cancer Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship. He started his independent laboratory at Vanderbilt in January of 2014, where his group works at the interface of molecular engineering and immunology to innovate technologies to improve human health. His multidisciplinary research program is supported by productive and synergistic collaborations with oncologists, cancer biologists, immunologists, chemists, and other engineers. He has co-authored over 25 peer-reviewed publications and three book chapters. Since establishing his lab at Vanderbilt, he has been awarded the NSF CAREER Award, an ‘A’ Award from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, a Melanoma Research Alliance Young Investigator Award, and is the recipient of an Innovative Funding Information: Research Grant from Stand Up To Cancer. Funding Information: Yiyun Cheng is a professor of Biomaterials at the School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University (ECNU). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2008 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St Louis. He joined ECNU and started independent research in 2010. Yiyun received Distinguished Young Scholars funding from the National Science Fund of China (NSFC), and the Young Chemist Award from the Chinese Chemical Society in 2015. He was an Editorial Board member for Letters in Drug Design & Discovery, Current Drug Discovery Technologies etc. Yiyun has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles. His research interests focus on the development of smart polymers for the cytosolic delivery of genes, proteins, peptides. Funding Information: Evan Scott, Ph.D., has been an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University since the fall of 2013. He respectively received a B.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University in 2002 and Washington University in St Louis in 2009. His dissertation work was performed in the laboratory of Prof. Donald Elbert, where he devel oped methods based in proteomics and polymer chemistry to both analyze and control the interactions between cells and material surfaces. As a Whitaker International Scholar, he spent four years in Switzerland at the EPFL per forming postdoctoral research in the laboratories of Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell and Prof. Melody Swartz. There he investigated new formulations and strategies for both HIV vaccination and cancer immunotherapy. Dr Scott is a recipient of the 2015 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, the 2015 National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the 2014 American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant. He was selected as a 2017 BMES Young Innovator of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering and a 2018 Nano Research Young Innovator in Nanobiotechnology. Funding Information: Adam Celiz graduated with a first-class bachelor’s degree from the University of Brighton in Pharmaceutical and Chemical Sciences in 2006 and gained a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge in the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis in 2010. Following this, Adam performed postdoctoral research at the University of Nottingham and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University with a Marie Curie International Outgoing fellowship. Adam’s research in biomaterials has led to an Early Career Researcher Award from the American Vacuum Society’s Biomaterials Interfaces Division and the Larry Hench Young Investigators Prize from the UK Society for Biomaterials. In 2017, Adam joined the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London as Lecturer (Assistant Professor) to develop biomaterials for tissue repair and regeneration. Funding Information: Dr Guvendiren is the principal investi gator of the Instructive Biomaterials and Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (IBAM-Lab) and an Assistant Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara (in Turkey). He earned his Ph.D. degree from the department of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University, focusing on adhesion in hydrogels and glassy polymers. He did postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania focusing on stem cell interactions with dynamic and patterned materials. He was a Research Assistant Professor at the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials at Rutgers University between 2013 and 2016. He joined NJIT in 2016, with a primary appointment in the Chemical and Materials Engineering Department and a joint appointment in the Biomedical Engineering Department. Dr Guvendiren has co-authored 30 research papers and 3 book chapters. His research group focuses on the development of novel biomaterials with user-defined and dynamic properties, investigation of cell–biomaterial interactions, and additive manufacturing (including bioprint- ing) of tissue engineering constructs. His research is currently funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the New Jersey Health Foundation.

PY - 2019/2

Y1 - 2019/2

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U2 - 10.1039/c8bm90065e

DO - 10.1039/c8bm90065e

M3 - Editorial

C2 - 30666328

AN - SCOPUS:85060631324

SN - 2047-4830

VL - 7

SP - 454

EP - 460

JO - Biomaterials science

JF - Biomaterials science

IS - 2

ER -