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Dr. John P. Fisher is a Distinguished University Professor, MPower Professor, Distinguished-Scholar Teacher, Fischell Family Distinguished Professor, and Department Chair in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland. Dr. Fisher is also the Director of the Center for Engineering Complex Tissue (CECT), which aims to create a broad community focusing on 3D printing and bioprinting for regenerative medicine applications. As the Director of the Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Laboratory, Dr. Fisher’s group investigates biomaterials, stem cells, bioprinting, and bioreactors for regenerating lost tissues, particularly bone, cartilage, and soft tissues. Dr. Fisher’s laboratory has published over 225 articles, book chapters, editorials, and proceedings (19,000+ citations / 75 h-index) and delivered over 400 invited and contributed presentations, with support from NIH, NSF, FDA, NIST, DoD, and other institutions.
As Chair of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering since January 2016, Dr. Fisher leads a department of approximately 25 tenured / tenure-track faculty, 35 professional track faculty, 17 staff members, 450+ undergraduate students, and 125+ graduate students. Dr. Fisher’s term as chair includes a range of key accomplishments, including increasing the research expenditures of the department from $8M in FY15 to $22M in FY24, establishing a 20 member External Advisory Board with key corporate partners and securing the department’s highest USNWR rankings in 2025 for its undergraduate (#21 overall, #8 in public universities) and graduate (#28 overall, #12 in public universities) programs.
Dr. Fisher has been elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2012), the Biomedical Engineering Society (2016), the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (2020), and the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (2024).
In 2023, Dr. Fisher was elected the 2025 Chair of the Council of Chairs (CoC), an assembly of the 150+ biomedical engineering / bioengineering department chairs throughout the United States and beyond.
Dr. Fisher is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Tissue Engineering, and from 2018 to 2020, Dr. Fisher was President of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society – Americas (TERMIS-AM).
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Dr. Kang-Mieler is the George Meade Bond Endowed Professor and Department Chair of Biomedical Engineering and the Director of the Semcer Center for Healthcare Innovation at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA. She received her BA in Mathematics, MS in Applied Mathematics, and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).
Juergen Hahn is the Director of the Jackson Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in addition to holding appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering. He received his Diploma degree in engineering from RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 1997, and his MS and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair for Process Systems Engineering at RWTH Aachen, Germany, before joining the Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, in 2003 and moving to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2012. He served as the Department Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer from 2013-2025. His research interest focuses on computational systems biology with a specific emphasis on data science approaches applied to autism spectrum disorder and he has authored over 170 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Hahn is a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship (1995/96), received the Best Referee Award for 2004 from the Journal of Process Control, the CPC 7 Outstanding Contributed Paper Award in 2006, was named Outstanding Reviewer by the journal Automatica in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2010 CAST Outstanding Young Researcher, and has been elected as an AIMBE Fellow in 2013, an AIChE Fellow in 2020, and a Fellow of BMES in 2022. He served on the IEEE CSS Board of Governors in 2016, has been a CACHE Trustee since 2014, and served as the chair of the BMES Council of Chairs in 2024. He was elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2024 and inaugurated in 2025. He is currently serving as deputy editor-in-chief for the Journal of Process Control and as associate editor for the journals Control Engineering Practice, the Journal of Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and the Journal of Personalized Medicine.