Antonios G. Mikos,
J.W. Cox Professor
of Bioengineering,
professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering,
and director of the 
Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering

AIChE honors Professor Mikos for decade-long research in chemical engineering

Antonios G. Mikos received the 2007 Alpha Chi Sigma Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) for his outstanding career accomplishments over the past decade in fundamental and applied chemical engineering research, and service to the community and AIChE. The coveted award is one of the highest honors bestowed by the organization.

AIChE, the worlds leading organization for chemical engineering professionals, will formally present Mikos with the award this November at the institute’s annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Mikos, the J.W. Cox Professor of Bioengineering, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and director of Rice's Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering, specializes in a broad range of research topics, including the synthesis, processing, and evaluation of new biomaterials for use as scaffolds for tissue engineering, carriers for controlled drug delivery, and non-viral vectors for gene therapy. His work has led to the development of novel orthopedic, dental, cardiovascular, neurologic, and ophthalmologic biomaterials.

Mikos joined Rice as the T.N. Law Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering in 1992. He was promoted to associate professor in 1996, and helped establish the Department of Bioengineering in 1997. Professor Mikos founded Rice’s Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering in 1998. A year later, he was named the J.W. Cox Professor of Bioengineering.

While at Rice, Mikos has supervised 35 Ph.D. and 6 M.S. graduate students.  He has also trained 24 postdoctoral fellows. He holds 23 patents, has authored more than 330 publications, and is a founding editor of the journal Tissue Engineering.He serves on the editorial boards of the journals Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, Cell Transplantation, Journal of Biomaterials Science Polymer Edition, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research (Part A and B), and Journal of Controlled Release. Mikos is a founding member of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society, a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and president elect of the North American Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society. He is also active in AIChE, the Biomedical Engineering Society, Controlled Release Society, and Society for Biomaterials. 

In recent years, his research and service to the science community has earned numerous professional honors, including the Society for Biomaterials’ Clemson Award for Contributions to the Literature (2001), Orthopaedic Research Society's Marshall R. Urist Award for Excellence in Tissue Regeneration Research (2005), Biomedical Engineering Society’s Distinguished Lecturer Award (2007), and the Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in Engineering from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (2007).

Mikos is well-known across academia and the biomedical industry for the short course – Advances in Tissue Engineering as he has organized the event at Rice since 1993. To learn more about the short course, visit http://tissue.rice.edu.

Mikos received a Chemical Engineering degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1983, and a doctorate in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University in 1988. From 1990-1991, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School.