2015 Lifetime Achievement Award of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society-Americas: Antonios G. Mikos, PhD

For the past two and a half decades, the Mikos Laboratory has worked to advance the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Located in the Department of Bioengineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas, the laboratory has focused on leveraging biomaterials and tissue engineering to better understand and treat human pathology. Over these years, the laboratory has served as the training grounds for over 55 PhD students and 35 postdoctoral fellows from a variety of fields within engineering and the life sciences, in addition to over 100 undergraduate and Master's degree students. The combined efforts of these trainees have resulted in several areas of contribution to the field. Beginning early in its inception, the focus of the laboratory has been the synthesis of novel polymers for use as scaffolds in tissue engineering. These classes of biomaterials possess a wide variety of physical and chemical properties and have been applied in orthopedic, dental, cardiovascular, neurologic, and ophthalmologic areas.