Biomaterials

Biomaterials can be classified as synthetic or natural materials intended to either augment, direct, replace, repair or regenerate organs, tissues, or cells. The field of biomaterials employs the combination of concepts and experimental techniques used in materials science and engineering, as well as the biological sciences, to address the structure-property-performance relationships of biomaterials and the devices that employ them. Biomaterials origins stem from the use of synthetic materials (metals, polymer & ceramics) in diverse applications as vascular graphs, artificial hips and dental restorations. More recently the scope of the field has broadened to include studies of natural tissues, cellular structures, and biomacromolecules, sometimes collectively referred to as biological materials. The biomaterials field has rapidly expanded to incorporate additional interdisciplinary elements of the biomedical and physical sciences. Biointerfaces, bio-microdevices, controlled drug delivery, tissue engineering, and efforts to apply knowledge from cell and molecular biology to regenerate tissues and organs are now at the leading edge of biomaterials research.

Biomaterials faculty in the Graduate Group:

Tamara Alliston, UCSF, Core Member
Biomaterials; Biomechanics

Harvey W. Blanch, UCB, Affiliate
Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics; Biomaterials; Tissue Engineering

Jhih-Wei Chu, UCB, Affiliate
Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics; Biomaterials; Biomechanics

Douglas Clark, UCB, Core Member
Biomaterials

Irina Conboy, UCB, Core Member
Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics; Biomaterials; Tissue Engineering

John Featherstone, UCSF, Affiliate
Biomaterials; Biomedical Imaging; Tissue Engineering

Daniel Fried, UCSF, Affiliate
Biomaterials; Biomedical Imaging

Robert Full, UCB, Core Member
Biomaterials; Biomechanics; BioMEMS, Nanotechnology, Robotics; Neural Systems Analysis

Bernard Halloran, UCSF, Affiliate
Biomaterials; Biomechanics; Biomedical Instrumentation; Tissue Engineering

Teresa Head-Gordon, UCB, Core Member
Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics; Biomaterials; Biomechanics

Kevin Healy, UCB, Core Member
Biomaterials; Drug Delivery; Tissue Engineering

Jay Keasling, UCB, Core Member
Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics; Biomaterials

Sanjay Kumar, UCB, Core Member
Biomaterials; Biomechanics; Biomedical Imaging; Tissue Engineering

Patricia Leake, UCSF, Core Member
Biomaterials; Biomechanics; Drug Delivery; Neural Systems Analysis; Tissue Engineering

Seung-Wuk Lee, UCB, Core Member
Biomaterials; Tissue Engineering

Luke Lee, UCB, Core Member
Biomaterials; Biomedical Imaging; Biomedical Instrumentation; BioMEMS, Nanotechnology, Robotics; Neural Systems Analysis; Vision

Song Li, UCB, Core Member
Biomaterials; BioMEMS, Nanotechnology, Robotics; Tissue Engineering

Gerard Marriott, UCB, Core Member
Biomaterials; Biomedical Imaging; Biomedical Instrumentation

Sally J. Marshall, UCSF, Affiliate
Biomaterials, Biomechanics, Biomedical Imaging, Tissue Engineering

Grayson W. Marshall, UCSF, Affiliate
Biomaterials; Biomechanics; Biomedical Imaging; Tissue Engineering

Susan Muller, UCB, Affiliate
Biomaterials; BioMEMS, Nanotechnology, Robotics

Albert Pisano, UCB, Affiliate
Biomaterials; BioMEMS, Nanotechnology, Robotics; Drug Delivery

Lisa Pruitt, UCB, Core Member
Biomaterials

Michael Ries, UCSF, Affiliate
Biomaterials

Robert Ritchie, UCB, Affiliate
Biomaterials; Biomechanics; Biomedical Imaging

David Schaffer, UCB, Core Member
Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics; Biomaterials; Drug Delivery; Tissue Engineering

Francis Szoka, Jr., UCSF, Core Member
Biomaterials; Drug Delivery; Tissue Engineering

Rong Wang, UCSF, Affiliate
Biomaterials; Biomechanics; Biomedical Imaging