Exploration of BioMat-X

Editor-in-Chief

Maryam Tabrizian, PhD

Full Professor at Department of Biomedical Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Email: maryam.tabrizian@mcgill.ca

Associate Editors

Omid Akhavan, PhD

Interests: graphene; nanomaterials; photocatalysts; bionanomaterials; tissue engineering

Professor at Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Email: oakhavan@sharif.edu

Aldo Roberto Boccaccini, PhD

Interests: bioactive materials; scaffolds; porous materials; tissue engineering; hydrogels; biofabrication; coatings

Professor and Head of Institute of Biomaterials and Chair of Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Email: aldo.boccaccini@fau.de

George J. Christ, PhD

Interests: tissue engineering; regenerative medicine; skeletal muscle; physiology; biomaterials; translational research; pharmacology

Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery at University of Virginia, Virginia, USA.
Email: gjc8w@virginia.edu

Gianni Ciofani, PhD

Interests: smart materials; nanomedicine; drug delivery; in vitro models

Senior Researcher Tenured, Principal Investigator of the Smart Bio-Interfaces Research Line and Coordinator of the Center for Materials Interfaces at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Pontedera, Italy.
Email: gianni.ciofani@iit.it

Dennis Douroumis, PhD

Interests: 3D printing; bioprinting; medical devices; biomaterials; nanomedicine

Professor in Pharmaceutical Technology and Process Engineering at University of Greenwich, Director of Centre for Research Innovation (CRI), Kent, UK.
Email: D.Douroumis@greenwich.ac.uk

Mattias Eden, PhD

Interests: bioactive glasses; apatite formation; solid-state NMR; molecular dynamics simulations; composition-structure-property relationships in glasses

Professor in Physical Chemistry at Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry (MMK), Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Email: mattias.eden@mmk.su.se

Vasif Hasirci, PhD

Interests: biomaterials; tissue engineering; nanobiomaterials; biotechnology; bioengineering

Professor at Department of Biomedical Engineering at Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Email: Vasif.Hasirci@acibadem.edu.tr

Didier Letourneur, PhD

Interests: polysaccharides; molecular imaging; cardiovascular biomaterials; translational research; tissue engineering

Research Director at CNRS and Director of the Laboratory for Vascular Translational Science at University Sorbonne Paris North, Paris, France.
Email: didier.letourneur@inserm.fr

Diego Mantovani, PhD

Interests: bioactive materials; functional coatings; medical devices; surfaces and interfaces; reparative and regenerative medicine

Professor and Director, Laboratory for Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Department of Min-Met-Materials Engineering and Regenerative Division, CHU de Quebec, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada.
Email: Diego.Mantovani@gmn.ulaval.ca

Arthur Ragauskas, PhD

Interests: biorefining; lignin; nanocellulose; composites

Professor/Governor Chair in Biorefinig, Interim Head Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Knoxville, USA.
Email: aragausk@utk.edu

Andreas Rosenkranz, PhD

Interests: 2D materials; MXenes; MBenes; biocompatibility; biotribology

Professor at University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Email: arosenkranz@ing.uchile.cl

Molly S. Shoichet, PhD

Interests: biomaterials; polymer synthesis; regenerative medicine; tissue engineering; drug delivery

Professor in Chemical Engineering at University of Toronto and Principal Investigator at Shoichet Lab, Toronto, Canada.
Email: molly.shoichet@utoronto.ca

Benjamin Thierry, PhD

Interests: biomedical engineering; biodiagnostics; molecular imaging; biosensors; nanomedicine

Professor and Research Leader at the Future Industries of University of South Australia, Magill, Australia.
Email: benjamin.thierry@unisa.edu.au

Cornelia Vasile, PhD

Interests: biomaterials; degradation of polymers; food packaging; nanomaterials; natural additives

Professor at "P. Poni" Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi, Romania.
Email: cvasile@icmpp.ro

Jayachandran Venkatesan, PhD

Interests: biomaterials; tissue engineering; drug delivery; alginate; chitosan

Assistant Professor at Yenepoya Research Centre, Yenepoya University, Mangalore, India.
Email: venkatjchem@gmail.com

Yin Xiao, PhD

Interests: tissue engineering; bone; dentistry; stem cell; biomaterials

Distinguished Professor at School of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Email: yin.xiao@qut.edu.au

Rongchang Zeng, PhD

Interests: bio-material; biodegradability; corrosion; surface modification; bio-compatibility

Full Professor at Engineering Research Center for Magnesium-based New Materials, Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-Nano), State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Email: rczeng@foxmail.com

Laichang Zhang, PhD

Interests: metal additive manufacturing; Ti alloys; nanostructured materials; metallic biomaterials; mechanical behavior

Professor of Materials Engineering in Edith Cowan University’s School of Engineering, Perth, Australia.
Email: l.zhang@ecu.edu.au

Editorial Board Members

Rashid K. Abu Al-Rub, PhD

Interests: additive manufacturing; 3D printing; metamaterials; scaffolds; mechanical properties; cellular materials; multifunctional materials

Director of Advanced Digital & Additive Manufacturing (ADAM) Center, Professor of Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Email: rashid.abualrub@ku.ac.ae

Ecaterina Andronescu, PhD

Interests: materials science; nanomaterials; nanobiomaterials; advanced materials; materials processing

Professor at Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
Email: ecaterina.andronescu@upb.ro

Lucian Baia, PhD

Interests: bioactive materials; porous materials; hydrogels; in vitro analyses; tissue engineering

Professor at the Faculty of Physics and Director of the Institute for Research, Development and Innovation in Applied Natural Sciences, ”Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Email: lucian.baia@ubbcluj.ro

Khalid Batoo, PhD

Interests: nanomaterials; thin films; biosensors; biomedical applications; targeted drug delivery; magnetism

Associate Professor at King Abdullah Institute for Nanotechnology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arab.
Email: kbatoo@KSU.EDU.SA

Feng Chen, PhD

Interests: polymer chemistry; nano-micro processing; biomedical engineering; tissue engineering

Experienced fellow of College of Materials Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China.
Email: chenf@zjut.edu.cn

Tohid Didar, PhD

Interests: biomaterials; nanotechnology; nanobiomaterials; biosensing; organs on chips; biointerfaces

Associate Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.
Email: didart@mcmaster.ca

Sergey V. Dorozhkin, PhD

Interests: hydroxyapatite; calcium phosphates; bioceramics; biomaterials; materials and surface chemistry

Service-engineer of the laboratory equipment testing, calibration and verification at Ecoinstrument company, Moscow, Russia.
Email: sedorozhkin@yandex.ru

Luca Fiorillo, PhD

Interests: implant dentistry; prosthetics; dental implantology; bone regeneration; dental materials

Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Prosthodontics at University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Email: lucafiorillo@live.it

Frederic Frezard, PhD

Interests: biophysics; pharmacology & pharmacy; drug delivery; nanobiotechnology; leishmaniases

Professor at Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Email: frezard@icb.ufmg.br

Mohammad Hasanzadeh, PhD

Interests: advanced nanomaterials; biomedicine; biomedical engineering; biosensing; nanomaterials and nano-devices

Assistant Professor of pharmaceutical analysis at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (TUOMS) at Pharmaceutical Analysis Research Center (PARC), Tabriz, Iran.
Email: mhmmd_hasanzadeh@yahoo.com

Håvard Jostein Haugen, PhD

Interests: bone graft material; scaffold; biomaterials; porous; polymer

Professor and Head of Department of Biomaterials at University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Email: h.j.haugen@odont.uio.no

Gunnar Henriksson, PhD

Interests: lignin; natural products; wood chemistry; plant biotechnology; bioremediation

Professor in Wood Chemistry, School of Chemical Engeneering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Email: ghenrik@kth.se

Tadeusz Hryniewicz, PhD

Interests: material science; surface treatments; biomaterials engineering; nanotechnology

Full Professor, Head of Surface Electrochemistry Division at Koszalin University of Technology, Koszalin, Poland.
Email: tadeusz.hryniewicz@tu.koszalin.pl

Jin Huang, PhD

Interests: natural polymer chemistry and materials; nanocellulose; bio-based polymer materials; carbon neutralizationor biomass equilibrium materials; polymer-based nanocomposites; macromolecular assembly; electromechanical conversion functional materials

Full Professor at School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
Email: huangjin@iccas.ac.cn

Hermis Iatrou, PhD

Interests: polymer synthesis of model polymeric materials for bio-related applications; synthesis of well-defined polypeptides; drug and gene delivery applications; nanomedicine

Associate Professor and Director at Industrial Chemistry Lab, Chemistry Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Email: iatrou@chem.uoa.gr

Esmaiel Jabbari, PhD

Interests: bioinspired materials; skeletal tissue engineering; multi‐scale composite materials; self-assembled nanogels for growth factor delivery; drug targeting to cancer stem cells

Full Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA.
Email: JABBARI@cec.sc.edu

Kuladip Jana, PhD

Interests: molecular & cellular endocrinology; reproductive medicine; bio-polymer; tissue engineering; nano-drug development

Principal Scientist at Division of Molecular Medicine at Bose Institute, Kolkata, India.
Email: kuladip@jcbose.ac.in

Yoon Ki Joung, PhD

Interests: biomaterials; biointerfaces; biomedical polymers

Professor of Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea.
Email: ykjoung@kist.re.kr

Won-Kyo Jung, PhD

Interests: biomedical science; marine natural products; bioactivity; cell & tissue regeneration

Professor of Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea.
Email: wkjung@pknu.ac.kr

Rajesh Kumar, PhD

Interests: carbon; graphene; layered materials; energy; bio-application

Ramanujan Fellow at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
Email: rajeshbhu1@gmail.com

Catherine Le Visage, PhD

Interests: regenerative medicine; cell therapy; osteoarthritis; intervertebral disc; hydrogels; drug delivery systems

Research Director at INSERM and Deputy Director of the Regenerative Medicine and Skeleton (RMeS) laboratory at the University of Nantes, Nantes, France.
Email: Catherine.Levisage@univ-nantes.fr

Xiangmei Liu, PhD

Interests: antibacterial; advanced therapy; photocatalytic; biomaterials; antibacterial materials

Professor at School of Health Science & Biomedical Engineering at Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China.
Email: xiangmei1978@163.com

Qingye Lu, PhD

Interests: interfacial science; hydrogels; aerogels; nanotechnology; biomaterials; polymers

Associate Professor of Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Email: qingye.lu@ucalgary.ca

Salvatore Magazù, PhD

Interests: biomaterials; polymers; material characterization; nanomaterials

Full Professor of Experimental Physics at MIFT Department of Messina University, Messina, Italy.
Email: salvatore.magazu@unime.it

Katharina Maniura, PhD

Interests: biomaterials; biointerfaces; tissue engineering; biomimetism; cell-/bacteria-material interaction

Professor and Head Biointerfaces Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology), Adjunct Professor ETH Zurich, D-HEST, Canton Zurich, Switzerland.
Email: Katharina.Maniura@empa.ch

Juan Mareque-Rivas, PhD

Interests: biomaterials; chemical immunology; materials and polymers; bioinorganic chemistry; supramolecular chemistry

Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.
Email: Juan.Mareque-Rivas@Swansea.ac.uk

Yogendra Kumar Mishra, PhD

Interests: new materials (3D soft); hybrid materials; sensors; smart composites; biomaterials; energy materials

Professor WSR in Nanomaterials at University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg, Denmark.
Email: mishra@mci.sdu.dk

Geoffrey Robert Mitchell, PhD

Interests: biopolymers and biomaterials; processing; X-ray and neutron scattering; electrospinning; direct digital manufacturing; digitialisation of materials

Coordinator Investigador, Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development, Institute Polytechnic of Leiria, Marinha Grande, Portugal.
Email: geoffrey.mitchell@ipleiria.pt

Rosaire Mongrain, PhD

Interests: biomechanics; blood flow; cardiovascular mechanics; medical device design; numerical modeling; experimental validation

Professor and Chair at Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Email: rosaire.mongrain@McGill.Ca

Laurent Muller, PhD

Interests: angiogenesis; biomaterials; hydrogels; tissue engineering; vascularized organ-on-a-chip

Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology at Collège de France, Paris, France.
Email: laurent.muller@college-de-france.fr

Hossein Naderi-Manesh, PhD

Interests: protein expression; molecular modeling; proteomics; nanotechnology; medicinal chemistry

Professor of Biophysics/Nano-biotechnology at Department of Biophysics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
Email: naderman@modares.ac.ir

Umezuruike L. Opara, PhD

Interests: biosystems engineering; postharvest technology; cold chain; food properties; agro-processing; packaging; non-destructive testing

Distinguished Professor & South African Research Chair in Postharvest Technology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Email: opara@sun.ac.za

Ahmad Oryan, PhD, DVM

Interests: tissue engineering; regenerative medicine; tendon healing; fracture healing; cutaneous wound healing

Professor of Comparative Pathology, Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
Email: oryan@shirazu.ac.ir

Lalit Mohan Pandey, PhD

Interests: bio-interfaces; biomaterials; surface modification; nanomaterials; nanobiocomposites; biochemical engineering

Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India.
Email: lalitpandey@iitg.ac.in

Catherine Picart, PhD

Interests: biomaterials; biophysics; biomimetism; tissue engineering; regenerative medicine; drug delivery

Head of the Department of Health at CEA Grenoble in the area of fundamental research and Full Professor at Grenoble-Institute of Technology, Grenoble, France.
Email: catherine.picart@cea.fr

George D. Pins, PhD

Interests: fiber biomaterials; scaffolds; tissue engineering; cell-material interactions; wound healing

Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA USA.
Email: gpins@wpi.edu

Milica Radisic, PhD

Interests: tissue engineering; organ-on-a-chip engineering; bioinspired and electroactive polymers; regenerative medicine; 3D printing

Professor and Associate Chair at Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry at University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Email: m.radisic@utoronto.ca

Derek Hadar Rosenzweig, PhD

Interests: bone metastases; 3D printing; biofabrication; biomaterials; drug delivery devices; ligament and tendon regeneration

Associate Professor at McGill University Department of Surgery, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Montreal, Canada.
Email: derek.rosenzweig@mcgill.ca

Amir Sanati Nezhad, PhD

Interests: biomaterials; biosensors; smart materials; medical devices; nanomaterials and technologies; multifunctional materials

Associate Professor at Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Email: amir.sanatinezhad@ucalgary.ca

Farzad Seidi, PhD

Interests: drug delivery; polymer-drug conjugates; hydrogel; polysaccharide; self-healing

Professor at International Innovation Center for Forest Chemicals and Materials, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China.
Email: f_seidi@njfu.edu.cn

Alexander Seifalian, PhD

Interests: nanotechnology; nanocomposite; polymer; antibacterial; regenerative medicine; biomaterials

Director of UCL Centre for Nanotechnology & Regenerative Medicine at University College London (UCL-CNRM), London, UK.
Email: a.seifalian@gmail.com

Ajay Vikram Singh, PhD

Interests: chemical toxicology; nanotoxicology; AI & QSAR; in silico modelling; micro-nanorobotics; materials engineering & antibacterial surface design

Senior Scientist at German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany.
Email: Ajay-Vikram.Singh@bfr.bund.de

Valentina Siracusa, PhD

Interests: polyesters; synthesis; chemical modification; thermal properties; mechanical properties; barrier properties; biodegradability; nanocomposites; biocomposites; bio-based and biodegradable polymers

Professor at Department of Chemical Science (DSC), University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Email: vsiracus@dmfci.unict.it

Shirley Tang, PhD

Interests: biomaterials; biosensors; nanochemistry; 3D bioprinting; point-of-care testing

Professor at Department of Chemistry at University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Email: tangxw@uwaterloo.ca

Marco Tatullo, PhD, MD

Interests: regenerative medicine; dentistry; stem cells; biomaterials; medical devices

Professor at University of Bari “ALDO MORO”, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Dundee University, Bari, Italy.
Email: marco.tatullo@tecnologicasrl.com

Michael Thompson, PhD

Interests: biomaterials; clinical diagnostics; stent biocompatibility; materials science; scaffolds; biomaterial surface science

Professor of Analytical Chemistry at University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Email: m.thompson@utoronto.ca

Stephanie Willerth, PhD

Interests: tissue engineering; regenerative medicine; bioprinting; stem cells; neuroscience; drug delivery; biomaterials; controlled release

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering at University of Victoria, Victoria, British.
Email: willerth@uvic.ca

Malcolm Xing, PhD

Interests: biomaterials; biomedical and electrical biosensors; sensors; micro-nano-electronic materials and devices; materials science and engineering

Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Biochemistry and Medical Genetics at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
Email: Malcolm.Xing@umanitoba.ca

Mohammad Tavakkoli Yaraki, PhD

Interests: plasmonics; nanoparticles; biosesnor; drug delivery; nanocomposite; cancer therapy

Macquarie University Research Fellow (MQRF) at School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Email: mohammad.tavakkoliyaraki@mq.edu.au

Hamid Yeganeh, PhD

Interests: polyurethanes; wound dressings; antibacterial polymers; renewable-resource-based polymers; tissue engineering; drug delivery

Professor at Department of Polyurethane, Faculty of Polymer Science, Iran Polymer and Petrochemical Institute (IPPI), Tehran, Iran.
Email: h.yeganeh@ippi.ac.ir

Fahmi Zaïri, PhD

Interests: mechanics of soft materials (polymers and biological tissues); multi-scale approach; multi-physics approach; constitutive modeling; experimental characterization

Full Professor at Civil Engineering and geo-Environmental Laboratory at University of Lille, Lille, France.
Email: Fahmi.Zairi@polytech-lille.fr