Center Faculty
Northwestern University: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Guillermo Ameer, ScD
Director, Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering
Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Surgery
Phone: 847-467-2292
emailDeputy Editor, Science Advances
Member, National Academy of Medicine
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
300+ peer-reviewed journal publications and abstracts
60+ patents (issued and pending)
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Vadim Backman, PhD
Sachs Family Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine
Phone: (847) 491-3536
emailVinayak P. Dravid, PhD
Abraham Harris Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Founding Director, Northwestern University Atomic and Nanoscale Characterization (NUANCE) Center
Founding Director, Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource, an NSF-NNCI Node
Nathan Gianneschi, PhD
Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Phone: (847) 491-2106
emailMark C. Hersam, PhD
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Materials Research Science and Engineering (MRSEC)
Mark Johnson, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Phone: 847-467-7143
emailShu Q. Liu, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Director for Regenerative Engineering Education
Chad Mirkin, PhD
Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology
George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Professor of Medicine
Phone: 847-467-7302
emailMilan Mrksich, PhD
Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Phone: 847-467-0710
emailJohn Rogers, PhD
Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Neurological Surgery
Phone: 847-467-2997
emailHariharan Subramanian, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Chief Technology Officer at NanoCytomics LLC
Phone: 847 467 3216
emailIgal G. Szleifer, PhD
Enroth-Cugell Chair, Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Professor of Medicine
Phone: 847-467-0674
emailNorthwestern University: Feinberg School of Medicine
Gregory A. Dumanian, MD
Chief of Plastic Surgery in the Department of Surgery
Orion H. and Lucille W. Stuteville Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Professor of Surgery (Plastic Surgery), Medical Education, Orthopaedic Surgery and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Phone: 312-695-6022
emailMark Eskandari
Chief of Vascular Surgery
James S. T. Yao Professor of Vascular Surgery
Phone: 312-926-7775
emailWellinton K. Hsu, MD
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurological Surgery
Phone: 312-695-6800
emailDimitri Krainc, MD
Chair, Department of Neurology
Director, Center for Neurogenetics
Aaron Montgomery Ward Professor Professor of Neurology (Movement Disorders), Neurological Surgery, Physiology and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Phone: (312) 503-3936
emailSusan Quaggin
Chair, Department of Medicine
Director, Feinberg Cardiovascular and Renal Research Institute
Charles Horace Mayo Professor
Phone: 312-503-1534
emailAngelo P. Tanna, MD
Vice Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
Director of Glaucoma in the Department of Ophthalmology
Professor of Ophthalmology
Phone: 312-695-8150
emailClyde Yancy
Chief of Cardiology
Vice Dean for Diversity and Inclusion
Magerstadt Professor
Phone: 312-695-0829
emailUniversity of Chicago: Pritzker School of Medicine
Tong-Chuan He, MD, PhD
Associate Professor; Department of Surgery; Cancer Research Center
Phone: (773) 702-7169
emailJeffery Hubbell, PhD
Eugene Bell Professor in Tissue Engineering
Deputy Director for Faculty and Staff Affairs
Phone: 773-702-0585
emailRaphael C. Lee, MD, ScD, DSc (Hon)
University of Chicago Medicine
Associate Director for Adult Regenerative Engineering
Paul and Allene Russell Professor of Surgery (Plastic); Professor of Medicine (Dermatology); Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy
Phone: (773) 702-6302
emailLurie Children's Hospital
Earl Y. Cheng, MD
Chief of Pediatric Urology, Dept. of Urology
Associate Director of Pediatric Regenerative Engineering
Co-Head, Reconstructive Pediatric Urology
Founders' Board Professor of Urology
Phone: 312-227-6340
emailAmy Paller, MD
Chair, Department of Dermatology
Director, Northwestern University Skin Disease Research Center (SDRC)
Associate Director for Regenerative Engineering, CARE
Walter J. Hamlin Professor and Chair of Dermatology, Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Phone: 312-695-3721
emailArun Sharma, PhD
Director, Pediatric Urological Regenerative Medicine;
Research Associate Professor of Urology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; and Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University Director, Surgical Research, Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute
Phone: 312/908-8145
emailShirley Ryan AbilityLab
Colin Franz, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and of Neurology
Endeavor Health
Jason Koh, MD, MBA
Mark R. Neaman Family Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery, Endeavor Health
Director, Orthopaedic & Spine Institute, Endeavor Health
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University