Candan Tamerler, PhD
Associate Dean for Research, School of Engineering
Wesley G. Cramer Professor
Mechanical Engineering
IBER,
Bioengineering Program
University of Kansas
Affiliated Faculty, Materials Sci & Eng. University of Washington
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Fellow, American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
- Fellow, Turkish Academy of Sciences,
- Nagoya University Visiting Professor Fellowship Award, Green Mobility Research Center, Japan
- Past Immediate Chair, Biomaterials Committee, TMS Society
- > 10 years experience with simultaneous appointments as Professors of Molecular Biology and Genetics (ITU) and Materials and Engineering (UW).
- Founder Director (Molecular Biotechnology) and Co-Founder (Genetically Engineered Materials) of Inter-disciplinary Research Centers
- > 150 peer-reviewed publications ( > 7650 citations, H-Index: 42); 5 Patents
Dr. Tamerler is an expert on biomimetics, biology enabled nanotechnologies, surfaces and interfaces. Tamerler’s wide range of research interest covers the engineering of biomolecular systems for diverse applications including:
- Restorative and Regenerative Biomaterials Design
- Molecular Additive Manufacturing: Bioinks to Integrated Functional Systems
- Biology Enabled Nanotechnologies
- Molecular Biomimetics
- Nanomedicine
- Machine Learning and AI Design of Peptides
- Design of organic-inorganic interfaces
- Self-assembly, directed assembly, coordinated assembly of nanoparticles and biomacromolecules
- Multifunctional biomedical probes
- Protein binding, structure and function (modeling, spectroscopy, & imaging)
