Antonios G. Mikos

Antonios Mikos is Rice University’s Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, professor of chemistry and materials science and nanoengineering and director of the Biomaterials Lab, dedicated to improving patient health and overcoming medical challenges through the development and support of biomaterials research, education and entrepreneurship. His research focuses on the synthesis, processing and evaluation of innovative biomaterials serving as scaffolds for tissue engineering, drug delivery carriers, non-viral gene therapy vectors and platforms for disease modeling. Mikos’ work has enabled the development of biomaterials used in a variety of clinical applications.

Mikos is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Inventors, the Academia Europaea, the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Academy of Athens. He has been recognized by numerous awards, including the Jensen Tissue Engineering Award of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society-Global, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society-Americas, the Society for Biomaterials’ Founders Award, the Controlled Release Society’s Founders Award and the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecturer Award. Mikos is founding editor and editor-in-chief of the Tissue Engineering journals.