We are fortunate to have prominent leaders in science and medicine serving on our Scientific Advisory Board.  They help us make strides in basic science, guide our product direction, and provide clinical insight for our technology and products.

Kristi S. Anseth, Ph.D, 
Dr. Anseth is presently a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Tisone Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  She received her B.S. degree from Purdue University in 1992 and her PhD from the University of Colorado in 1994, both degrees were in chemical engineering.  Following postdoctoral research appointments at Purdue and MIT, she joined the faculty at the University of Colorado in1996.  Her research interests lie at the interface between biology and engineering of polymeric biomaterials and involve the application of photopolymerization technology to the development of new biomaterials for medical and biological applications, including tissue engineering, drug delivery, and microfluidic devices.  Since joining the faculty at CU in 1996, Dr. Anseth's group has published over one hundred publications in peer reviewed journals and presented over one hundred invited lectures in the fields of photopolymerization and biomaterials.  She is the first engineer to be named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and recently received the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award.  Dr. Anseth is also a dedicated teacher, who has received four University Awards related to her teaching, as well as the American Society for Engineering Education's Curtis W. McGraw Award.

Daniel A. Grande, Ph.D.
Dr. Grande completed his doctorate training at New York University.  His dissertation was on the use of cartilage cells [chondrocytes] for transplantation to repair cartilage defects in the knee.  This technology has revolutionized our understanding and treatment of cartilage injuries.  He then performed a post-doctoral fellowship, in biomechanics, at the Hospital For Special Surgery, New York, NY.  After completing his fellowship he was a Research Associate in the department of bioengineering at the Hospital For Joint Diseases/Orthopaedic Institute, New York, NY.  Dr. Grande was then recruited to start the first orthopaedic research laboratories at North Shore University Hospital in 1990 where he has been since.  Dr. Grande is currently the Director of Orthopaedic Research in the department of Orthopaedic Surgery at North Shore/LIJ Health System, Manhasset, New York.  Dr. Grande also serves as the Director of Resident Research for the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, which has a program of 12 residents. Dr. Grande is the author of over 45 peer-reviewed publications in various scientific journals.  He is considered a leader in the field of orthopaedic tissue engineering and is often invited to give presentations at prestigious conferences throughout the world.  Dr. Grande has also been honored with several awards for his contributions to the field including the Charles S. Neer award in 2004.  Dr. Grande is also a mentor to high school, college, and medical students who wish to pursue a career in orthopaedics.  Many of these students who have spent time in his lab doing research projects have won top honors in various competitions.

Ernst Hunziker, M.D.
Dr. Hunziker is the Director of the ITI Research Institute for Dental and Skeletal Biology in Bern (Switzerland), which was formerly the M.E. Muller Institute for Biomechanics, also under his directorship. He is a co-founder and the current President of the International Cartilage Repair Society. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Osteoarthritis and Cartilage and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Orthopaedic Research. By training, Prof. Hunziker is a physician. But since completing his studies and internship, he was devoted his time to research. His interests lie in the field of articular cartilage biology and repair.  He looked at why articular cartilage tissue is unable to heal spontaneously and found that growth-factor signaling culled the tissue’s own natural resources, thereby obviating the need for cell or tissue transplantation. This research led to the invention of several technologies relevant to the field of tissue engineering.

Christopher J. Lobb, Ph.D.
Dr. Lobb received a BA in physics from Rutgers in 1974, and SM and PhD degrees from Harvard in applied physics in 1976 and 1980.  Following a post-doc at Harvard, he became a faculty member there, becoming Associate Professor in 1986, before going to the University of Maryland in 1990, where he is now Professor of Physics and Associate Director of the Center for Superconductivity Research.  He has had visiting positions at IBM, NIST, the Technical University of Denmark, and the University of Chicago, and has worked as a consultant for Sanders/Lockheed and American Superconductor Corporation.  He became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1994.  His research areas include condensed-matter physics, phase transitions, and novel electronic devices.  He has published more than185 papers on superconducting materials and devices, percolation, localization, nonlinear dynamics, pattern formation, and other topics. His current research is on phase transitions in superconductors and quantum computing using superconducting devices. He has received numerous University of Maryland awards, including the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Outstanding Teacher Award from the Maryland Center for Teaching Excellence, the Invention of the Year Award, and the Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award.