This year's workshop is sponsored by the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Pittsburgh.  

Conference Chairs

Robert E. Guldberg, PhD
Director of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience;
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

  
 

 
 

Stephen F. Badylak, DVM, PhD, MD
Deputy Director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine;
Professor in the Department of Surgery
University of Pittsburgh

 

 

Scientific Committee

Thomas Barker, PhD
Associate Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
 

 

 

 

Bryan Brown, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering
University of Pittsburgh 

 

 

 

Steven Little, PhD
Chair of the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Bicentennial Alumni Faculty Fellow of the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering
Associate Professor
University of Pittsburgh

 

 

 Kacey G. Marra, PhD
Co-Director, Adipose Stem Cell Center
Associate Professor, Departments of Surgery & Bioengineering
University of Pittsburgh 

 
 

 

Todd C. McDevitt, PhD
Director for Stem Cell Engineering Center 
Petit Faculty Fellow, Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
Associate Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

 

 

 

Manu Platt, PhD
Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar
Assistant Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department. of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

 

 

 

J. Peter Rubin, MD, FACS
Chair, Department of Plastic Surgery
Director of the Center for Innovation in Restorative Medicine
UPMC Endowed Professor of Plastic Surgery
Professor of Bioengineering
University of Pittsburgh

 

 

 

Sanjeev G. Shroff, PhD
Professor and Gerald E. McGinnis Chair in the Department of Bioengineering
Professor of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh

 

 

 

W. Robert Taylor, MD, PhD
Director for the Division of Cardiology
Professor of Medicine
Emory University 

 

 

 

Johnna Temenoff, PhD
Associate Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology