Antonios Mikos
· Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (NAE, NAM), Professor of Chemistry, and of Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Director of the Biomaterials Lab, Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering, and J.W. Cox Laboratory for Biomedical EngineeringRice University · Bioengineering
Active 1986–2026
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About
Antonios Mikos is the Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University. He is also a Professor of Chemistry and of Materials Science and NanoEngineering. Mikos serves as the Director of the Biomaterials Lab, the Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering, and the J.W. Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering at Rice University. His research focuses on the synthesis, processing, and evaluation of new biomaterials for use as scaffolds for tissue engineering, carriers for controlled drug delivery, non-viral vectors for gene therapy, and platforms for disease modeling. His work has led to the development of novel biomaterials for orthopaedic, dental, cardiovascular, neurologic, and ophthalmologic applications. Mikos has authored over 710 publications and holds 33 patents. He is a member of numerous prestigious scientific societies, including the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among others. Recognized with numerous awards, he has also mentored a significant number of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, many of whom remain active in academia and industry. Mikos is a founding editor and editor-in-chief of several journals in tissue engineering and serves on multiple editorial boards, contributing extensively to the advancement of biomedical engineering research.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Materials science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Nanotechnology
- Biochemical engineering
- Biomedical engineering
- Machine Learning
- Engineering drawing
- Immunology
Selected publications
Materials design for bone-tissue engineering
Nature Reviews Materials · 2020 · 1642 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingAssessment methodologies for extrusion-based bioink printability
Biofabrication · 2020 · 387 citations
Extrusion-based bioprinting is one of the leading manufacturing techniques for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Its primary limitation is the lack of materials, known as bioinks, which are suitable for the bioprinting process. The degree to which a bioink is suitable for bioprinting has been described as its 'printability.' However, a lack of clarity surrounding the methodologies used to evaluate a bioink's printability, as well as the usage of the term itself, have hindered the fie…
Polymeric Systems for Bioprinting
Chemical Reviews · 2020 · 246 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingBioprinting is rapidly being adopted as a major method for fabricating tissue engineering constructs. Through the precise deposition of cell- and bioactive molecule-laden materials, bioprinting offers researchers a means to create biological constructs with enhanced spatial complexity that more closely mimics native tissue. The vast majority of materials used in bioprinting have been polymers due to their suitability toward resembling the cellular environment and the variety of methods available…
Machine Learning-Guided Three-Dimensional Printing of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds
Tissue Engineering Part A · 2020 · 111 citations
Various material compositions have been successfully used in 3D printing with promising applications as scaffolds in tissue engineering. However, identifying suitable printing conditions for new materials requires extensive experimentation in a time and resource-demanding process. This study investigates the use of Machine Learning (ML) for distinguishing between printing configurations that are likely to result in low-quality prints and printing configurations that are more promising as a first…
Biomaterials · 2023 · 42 citations
Senior authorCorresponding
Recent grants
NIH · $1.6M · 2015
NIH · $360k · 2011
NIH · $1.4M · 2004
Frequent coauthors
- 237 shared
John A. Jansen
Radboud University Nijmegen
- 134 shared
F. Kurtis Kasper
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- 101 shared
David Dean
The Ohio State University
- 101 shared
John P. Fisher
University of Maryland, College Park
- 84 shared
Brandon T. Smith
University of Pittsburgh
- 64 shared
Emma Watson
Baylor College of Medicine
- 61 shared
Jeroen J.J.P. van den Beucken
- 60 shared
Vassilios I. Sikavitsas
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Labs
Awards & honors
- Jensen Tissue Engineering Award, Tissue Engineering and Rege…
- Lifetime Achievement Award, Tissue Engineering and Regenerat…
- Founders Award, Society For Biomaterials
- Clemson Award for Contributions to the Literature, Society F…
- Founders Award, Controlled Release Society
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