Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine Young Investigator Award
TERMIS World Congress 2009
TERMIS World Congress 2009
The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine has awarded the Young Investigator Award for the second year. This award is designed to recognize outstanding achievements by members of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) who is in the early stages of a career in regenerative medicine. The award consists of a certificate, a $2,500 cash prize and recognition at the 2009 TERMIS World Congress. We are pleased to announce this year's winners: Christopher J. Bettinger and Kara L. Spiller.
Christopher J. Bettinger studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received an S.B. in Chemical Engineering in 2003, an M.Eng. in Biomedical Engineering in 2004, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2008. He completed his doctoral work under the supervision of Prof. Robert Langer where he worked to develop micro- and nanoscale biomaterial systems for use in tissue engineering. He is a currently a postdoctoral fellow working in the field of organic electronics under the supervision of Prof. Zhenan Bao in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University.
Kara L. Spiller completed her B.S./M.S. degrees at Drexel Univeristy in 2007. She has continued her thesis work as an NSF Fellow in the Biomaterials and Drug Delivery Lab at Drexel University in Philadelphia, under the advisement of Dr. Anthony Lowman. Her thesis project is entitled "Semi-degradable, multi-functional hydrogels for the repair of cartilage defects." Following TERMIS-WC, Ms. Spiller will continue on to the Shanghai Key Tissue Engineering Laboratory, under the advisement of Drs. Yilin Cao and Wei Liu, to complete the capstone project of her research as part of the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Program.