Laura J Suggs
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Biography
Laura J Suggs earned her Undergraduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and her PhD in Chemical Engineering with a concentration in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering from Rice University in 1998. Following a Research Associate position at the University of Minnesota, she returned to Texas to join as the Faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 2004. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including: American Heart Association Beginning Grant-in-Aid and Grant-in-Aid; NSF ADVANCE Fellowship; NSF CAREER award and recent election to the American Institute for Medical and Biologic Engineering. She is a Full Professor and the Associate Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department at UT Austin. She has served as an Editor for Annals of Biomedical Engineering and the Journal of Materials Chemistry, part B, as well as serving on numerous scientific and advisory boards.
Abstract
Abstract : Molecular self-assembly of tissue engineering matrices