Professor Antonios G. Mikos, the Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University, is the recipient of the 2023 Cato T. Laurencin Regenerative Engineering Society Founder’s Award. The Founder’s Award was established in honor of Dr. Cato T. Laurencin by the Regenerative Engineering Society (RES) to recognize individuals in the field who have demonstrated leadership in the science and practice of convergence research as applied to regenerative engineering and medicine.
About Dr. Mikos and his work
Dr. Mikos holds international acclaim as a global pioneer in the application of fundamentals of engineering and biological sciences toward the development of biomaterials for a wide variety of biomedical uses, ranging from controlled drug delivery and gene therapy to regenerative engineering medicine. His research has led to the development of novel orthopaedic, dental, cardiovascular, neurologic, and ophthalmologic biomaterials. Mikos has mentored and supervised 70 Ph.D. students and 40 postdoctoral fellows, 24 of whom remain in academia.
Dr. Mikos’s work brought paradigmatic shifts in the way researchers approach biomaterials for regenerative medicine and achieved landmark innovations in the controlled release and delivery of therapeutics, and screening for personalized medicine approaches for cancer treatment. Research in Mikos’s laboratory at Rice University continues in these areas and other emerging areas at the frontier of regenerative engineering and medicine.
His work has had major impact both in the tissue engineering and the “combination products” fields, two fields with combined markets of several billion dollars annually. Mikos has also directed the translation of regenerative solutions for the treatment of battlefield injuries in his role as a program leader in the craniofacial reconstruction focus area of the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine since 2008. He holds 32 patents in the field and has won dozens of awards.
Learn more about the Cato T. Laurencin Regenerative Engineering Society Founder’s Award.