Antonios Mikos, the Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice, has received the 2020 Founders Award of the Controlled Release Society (CRS).
The honor recognizes Mikos for his “outstanding contributions in the
science and technology of controlled release.” Controlled release
includes various methods for delivering drugs and other substances at a
desired rate for a specified period of time.
Mikos’ research focuses on the synthesis, processing and evaluation
of biomaterials for use as scaffolds in tissue engineering, carriers for
controlled drug delivery, nonviral vectors for gene therapy and as
platforms for disease modeling. His work has led to the development of
orthopedic, dental, cardiovascular, neurologic and ophthalmologic
biomaterials.
Mikos earned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Purdue University
in 1988. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and the Harvard Medical School before joining
the Rice faculty in 1992. He is director of the Center for Engineering
Complex Tissues, the Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering and the
J.W. Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering at Rice.
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering; the National
Academy of Medicine; the National Academy of Inventors; the
International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering; the Academy
of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas; and the Academy of
Athens. Mikos was awarded the 2019 Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal.
He will formally receive the award from CRS at its annual meeting and exposition in Las Vegas in late June, where he will deliver the Founders Award Lecture.
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