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, Core Member 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, Core Member 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 Sally J. Marshall, UCSF, Core Member Biomaterials, Biomechanics, Biomedical Imaging, Tissue Engineering Grayson W. Marshall, UCSF, Affiliate Biomaterials; Biomechanics; Biomedical Imaging; Tissue Engineering Susan Muller, UCB, Core Member 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