Antonios Georgios Mikos (born 1960) is a Greek-American biomedical engineer who is the Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at

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. He specialises in biomaterials, drug delivery, and

tissue engineering Tissue engineering is a biomedical engineering discipline that uses a combination of Cell (biology), cells, engineering, Materials science, materials methods, and suitable biochemistry, biochemical and physicochemical factors to restore, maintai ...

Education

Mikos completed undergraduate study in engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Dipl. Eng., 1983), and pursued a master's and doctorate (M.S. in chemical engineering, 1985 and Ph.D. in chemical engineering, 1988) at

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in the United States. After his doctoral studies, he performed his postdoctoral work at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

and the

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States and is consi ...

Career

Mikos is the Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University in

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. He is also the Director of the National Institutes of Health Center for Engineering Complex Tissues, Director of the Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering, and Director of the John W. Cox Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering at Rice University. Mikos’ research centers on developing biomaterial systems for tissue engineering, drug delivery, gene delivery, and disease modeling. His has studied cartilage, bone, muscle, and cardiovascular engineering, controlled release platforms for growth factors, non-viral vectors, and scaffolds for studying

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s. In 2021, he began studying 3D printing for tissue engineering and hydrogel systems for bone and cartilage regeneration. He co-authored a textbook entitled ''Biomaterials: The Intersection of Biology and Materials Science''. Mikos founded the journals ''Tissue Engineering Part A'', ''Tissue Engineering Part B: Review'', and ''Tissue Engineering Part C: Methods'' and currently serves as their

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. He also serves on the editorial boards of multiple other journals including

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews ''Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews'' is a Peer review, peer-reviewed medical journal covering research involving the controlled release and delivery of drugs and other biologically active agents. The editor-in-chief is H. Ghandehari. Abstracting a ...

, Cell Transplantation, Journal of Biomaterials Science Polymer Edition,

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(Part A and B), and Journal of Controlled Release. He has an annual short course on tissue engineering at Rice University since 1993.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mikos, Antonios 1960 births Living people Greek engineers Greek biochemists American bioengineers Rice University faculty Purdue University College of Engineering alumni Aristotle University of Thessaloniki alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Corresponding Members of the Academy of Athens (modern) 20th-century American engineers 21st-century American engineers Place of birth missing (living people) Greek emigrants to the United States Presidents of Society for Biomaterials Members of the National Academy of Medicine Engineers from Thessaloniki