DSM Biomedical Scientific Advisory Board

Antonios G. Mikos is the Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University. He is the Director of the J.W. Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering and the Director of the Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering at Rice University. Antonios’ research focuses on the synthesis, processing, and evaluation of new biomaterials for use as scaffolds for tissue engineering, as carriers for controlled drug delivery, and as non-viral vectors for gene therapy. His work has led to the development of novel orthopedic, dental, cardiovascular, neurologic, and ophthalmologic biomaterials. Antonios is the author of over 380 publications and 24 patents and is a Fellow of the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He received his Dipl.Eng. from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Purdue University.

Ivo R. Busch­mann is the Co-Director of Richard-Thoma-Laboratories in the Translational Center for Medicine at the Charité Berlin, Germany (ECRC & CCR).  Ivo’s primary research focus is in the field of vascular medicine in particular arteriogenesis. Ivo has spent several years at the Max-Planck-Institute, Department of Experimental Cardiology together with his former Mentor Wolfgang Schaper. The Thoma Laboratories at the Charité as well as the Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine are a unique platform for molecular and cellular vascular science. The laboratories with a team of 25 coworkers provide a broad spectrum from zebrafish technology to large animal species with the particular focus on arterial disease models (stroke, heart disease, peripheral artery disease etc.). Clinically Ivo is working in interventional vascular medicine in the German Center for Vascular Medicine (www.dazb.de).

Patrick Cahalan is a Senior Scientist at Ension, Inc. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Patrick has over 40 years of experience in materials and life sciences with a primary focus on blood-material and tissue-material interactions and holds more than 40 granted and pending patents. Prior to his current position, he was the Chief Technology Officer at Percardia Inc. in Nashua, New Hampshire. He has also held positions with several prestigious companies including, Intelligent Biocides, Medtronic, and General Mills Chemicals. Patrick has been honored as a Bakken Society Fellow and received Medtronic’s Technical Contributor of the Year Award. Patrick earned a B.S. in Chemistry and Biology from the University of Minnesota.

Professor Samuel Stupp is a Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. Samuel spent 18 years as a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he focused on self-assembly and supramolecular materials with special emphasis in regenerative medicine, organic electronics, solar energy, and cancer therapies. Samuel has received several recognitions throughout his career including the Department of Energy Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Materials Chemistry, a Humboldt Senior Award, the Materials Research Society's Medal Award, and the American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry for his work on supramolecular self-assembly. This year, he was elected fellow of the Materials Research Society and also received an honorary doctorate from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands for revolutionary research in complex molecular systems. Samuel has a B.S. in chemistry from the University of California at Los Angeles and his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University.

C. James Kirkpatrick is Professor of Pathology and Chairman at the Institute of Pathology, the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. His principal research interests are in the fields of endothelial pathobiology, biomaterials in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, with a special focus on the development of human cell culture techniques, specifically around co-culture systems in three-dimensions. James has authored over 350 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has led more than 1000 presentations at scientific meetings worldwide.  He is a former President of both the German Society for Biomaterials and the European Society for Biomaterials as well as an Associate Editor of the journal Biomaterials. James has a triple doctorate in science and medicine from the Queen’s University of Belfast in Ireland.

Wouter JA Dhert is a Professor of Translational Research of the Musculoskeletal System and Director of Orthopedic Research in the Department of Orthopaedics, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands. He is also a Professor of Tissue Repair at the Veterinary Faculty, Utrecht University. Wouter’s main research focus is on regeneration of tissues of the musculoskeletal system, in particular bone, articular cartilage and intervertebral disc, including the development and use of biomaterials. His specific expertise in man and animal include spinal surgery and joint reconstruction and is also focused on biomaterials related infections in orthopedics. Wouter earned a Ph.D. in Orthopaedic Biomaterials and a Medical Degree from Leiden University, the Netherlands.