Bio-inspired Materials for Biomedical Engineering (eBook)

Anthony B. Brennan is the Margaret A. Ross EndowedProfessor of Materials Science and Engineering and a professor ofBiomedical Engineering at the University of Florida. Hereceived his Bachelor's degree in chemistry from State Universityof New York at Potsdam in 1975 and his Ph.D. in MaterialsEngineering Science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StatueUniversity in 1990. Dr. Brennan has been a member of thefaculty at the University of Florida since 1991. Hismaterials focus is on the structure of the interphase between thecell and the substrate.Chelsea M. Kirschner obtained a Bachelor's degree inMaterials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida in2006, and her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Universityof Florida in 2010. Dr. Kirschner completed a postdoctoralresearch fellowship at the University of Colorado at Boulder in2013. Her research focused on the influence of spatially andtemporally patterned hydrogel architectures and chemistries onadult stem cell shape and differentiation. She is currently aBiomedical R&D Engineer at Sharklet Technologies in Aurora, CO.