New Jersey Center for Biomaterials

Beyond the core mentors, participating faculty residing at Rutgers, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylania, University of Medicine and Dentistry, and Stevens Institute of Technology provide input as research co-mentors and advisors. In addition to pursuing individual funded research, the core and participating faculty collaborate in joint biomaterials and tissue engineering investigations, some of which involve industry participation.

The program is designed so that the trainee completes a collaborative research project involving the laboratory of the primary mentor and at least one of the co-mentors.

Participating Faculty	Research	Affiliation
Treena Livingston Arinzeh, PhD	Tissue engineering and bio-materials, cell-materials interactions, stem cell application, soft musculoskeletal and neural tissues	New Jersey Institute of Technology, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Christopher Chen, MD, PhD	Micro- and Nanotechnology; Transduction of mechanical forces by cells; Relationship between cellular and multicellular structure and biological function; Angiogenesis; Cancer; and Stem cell biology	University of Pennsylvania, Tissue Microfabrication Lab
Michael G. Dunn, Ph.D.	Polymer and collagen scaffolds, biohybrid materials for medical implants	UMDNJ – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Surgery – Division of Orthopaedics
Martin Grumet, PhD	Cell adhesion in brain tumor biology; application of cellular and molecular therapies to spinal cord injury	Rutgers, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Henry Hsia, MD	Molecular biology of wound healing, plastic surgery	UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Surgery
Michael Jaffe, PhD	Polymer structure-process-property relationships, polymer fabrication	New Jersey Institute of Technology, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Doyle Knight, PhD	Automated computational design and virtual and physical prototyping	Rutgers Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Sheldon Lin, MD	Orthopaedic surgery, fractures, foot and ankle, diabetes mellitus	UMDNJ – New Jersey Medical School, Department of Orthopaedics
Bozena B. Michniak-Kohn, PhD	Drug delivery, controlled release formulations, synthetic skin analogs	Rutgers School of Pharmacy
Robert Prud'homme, PhD	Biopolymer self-assembly, Vesicles and liposomes in drug delivery; Polymer-drug nanoparticle formation	Princeton Department of Chemical Engineering
Richard Riman, PhD	Ceramic powders: synthesis/characterization	Rutgers – Department of Ceramics and Materials Engineering
Jeffrey Schwartz, PhD	Organometallic chemistry; surface and interface organic and Inorganic chemistry and their applications to bio- and electronic materials	Princeton University
Larisa Sheihet, PhD	Synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles as controlled drug release formulations for various biomedical applications	Rutgers Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Kathryn Uhrich, PhD	Novel polymeric architectures, cell-material interactions	Rutgers - Department of Chemistry Chemical Biology