Founder's Award
Antonios Mikos, PhD - Rice University
Awardee Address: Bones to Biomaterials and Back Again – 20 Years of Taking Cues from Nature to Engineer Synthetic Polymer Scaffolds
C. William Hall Award
Shalaby Shalaby, PhD – Poly-Med, Inc.
Posthumous tribute given by: Waleed Shalaby, MD, PhD
Awardee Address: Novel Tailoring of Biomaterials from Biocompatible to Bioactive
Technology Innovation & Development Award
James Burns, PhD – Genzyme Corporation
Awardee Address: Discovery and Development of Seprafilm; a Unique Surgical Adjunct
Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal
Michael V. Sefton, ScD - University of Toronto
Awardee Address: Poetry, Common Sense and Reality
Clemson Award for Basic Research
Kevin Healy, PhD – University of California, Berkeley
Awardee Address: Designing Materials to Direct Stem Cell Fate
Clemson Award for Applied Research
William Wagner, PhD – University of Pittsburgh
Awardee Address: Designing Temporary Mechanical Supports to Alter Adverse Remodeling in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: A Biomaterial-Based Approach to Cardiac Failure
Clemson Award for Contributions to the Literature
Ashutosh Chilkoti, PhD - Duke University
Awardee Address: Recombinant Polypeptide Nanoparticles and Synthetic Polymer Brushes for Biomaterial Applications
Outstanding Research by a Clinical Fellow Award
Keiko Tarquinio, MD, FAAP – Rhode Island Hospital/ Hasbro Children’s Hospital
Awardee Address: Comparison of Quantification Methods Illustrates Reduced Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Activity on Nanorough Polyvinyl Chloride
Young Investigator Award
Jeff Karp, PhD – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awardee Address: On-demand Drug Delivery from Self-assembled Nanofibrous Gels: A New Approach for Treatment of Proteolytic Disease
Young Investigator Award
Alireza Khademhosseini, PhD – Harvard University
Awardee Address: Directed Assembly of Cell-laden Microgels for Building Porous Three-dimensional Tissue Constructs
Student Award for Outstanding Research –PhD Candidate
Joe Baio – University of Washington
Awardee Address: Measuring the Orientation of Electrostatically Immobilized Horse Heart Cytochrome C by Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy and Sum Frequency Generation
Student Award for Outstanding Research –PhD Candidate
Lei Yang - Brown University
Awardee Address: Understanding Osteoblast Responses on Stiff Nanotopographies Through Experiments and Computational Simulations
Student Award for Outstanding Research –Undergraduate
Laura Marquardt - Saint Louis University
Awardee Address: Neurite Growth in PEG Gels: Effect of Mechanical Stiffness and Laminin Concentration