CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges

Bioinspired Materials

Phillip Messersmith

Professor, Bioengineering and Materials Science
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Adhesive Proteins, Biocompatible Materials, Bioengineering, Bioinspired Materials, Biointerfaces, Biological Interfacial Phenomena, Biomaterials Design, Biomimetic Chemistry, Catechol Chemistry, Drug Delivery, Interfacial Science, Materials Science, Multifunctional Biomaterials, Mussel Adhesion, Polymer Science, Polymeric Materials, Regenerative Medicine, Soft Materials, Surface Science, Surgery, Surgical Adhesives, Synthetic Materials, Tissue Engineering, Tissue Repair, Wound Healing

Grace Gu

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Composites, Additive Manufacturing, Bioinspired Materials, Composites, Computational Materials Engineering, Finite Element Analysis, Fracture Mechanics, Machine Learning, Structural Optimization, Topology Optimization

Professor Kevin Healy

Professor, Bioengineering and Materials Science and Engineering
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Bioengineering, Bioinspired Materials, Biological Interfaces, Biomaterials, Drug Development, Environmental Toxicity Screening, Lineage Specification, Microphysiological Systems, Microtissues, Organoids, Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cell Microenvironments, Stem Cells, Translational Bioengineering