{"id":4932,"date":"2017-01-10T10:44:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=4932"},"modified":"2017-01-10T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:44:08","slug":"change-guard-inbt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/01\/change-guard-inbt\/","title":{"rendered":"Change of Guard at INBT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/01\/change-guard-inbt\/mao_gerecht-combo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5744\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5744\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mao_Gerecht-Combo-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"Sharon Gerecht, Hai-Quan Mao\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mao_Gerecht-Combo-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mao_Gerecht-Combo-768x458.jpg 768w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mao_Gerecht-Combo-1024x610.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Professors <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/chembe\/faculty\/sharon-gerecht\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon Gerecht<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/faculty\/hai-quan-mao\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hai-Quan Mao<\/a> have assumed leadership of Johns Hopkins University\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for NanoBioTechnology<\/a>, succeeding <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/faculty\/peter-c-searson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Searson<\/a>, the Joseph R. and Lynn C. Reynolds Professor, and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.jhu.edu\/administration\/provost\/bios\/wirtz\" target=\"_blank\">Denis Wirtz,<\/a> the vice provost for research and the Theophilus Halley Smoot Professor, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Gerecht, a professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/chembe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering<\/a> and the Kent Gordon Croft Investment Management Faculty Scholar, will serve as the institute\u2019s director. Her research focuses on stem cells and their microenvironment, especially as applied to tissue repair and regeneration. She was the winner of the inaugural <a href=\"http:\/\/releases.jhu.edu\/2015\/01\/28\/250000-johns-hopkins-presidents-frontier-award-goes-to-sharon-gerecht\/\" target=\"_blank\">President\u2019s Frontier Award<\/a> in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Mao will serve as associate director. He is a professor in the departments of <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/\" target=\"_blank\">Materials Science and Engineering<\/a> and of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bme.jhu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Biomedical Engineering<\/a>, and currently holds a joint appointment in the <a href=\"http:\/\/ttec.johnshopkins.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Translational Tissue Engineering Center<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/som\/\" target=\"_blank\">School of Medicine<\/a>. Mao\u2019s research is focused on engineering novel nanostructured materials for nerve regeneration and therapeutic delivery. He won the university\u2019s 2015 Cohen Translational Engineering Award and a <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/2015\/07\/06\/materials-science-discovery-awards\/#.WG1EtLYrJBw\" target=\"_blank\">2015 Johns Hopkins Discovery Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professors Sharon Gerecht and Hai-Quan Mao have assumed leadership of Johns Hopkins University\u2019s Institute for NanoBioTechnology, succeeding Peter Searson and Denis Wirtz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[121,160,170,174,210,211,760,764,768],"class_list":["post-4932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-wse","tag-department-of-biomedical-engineering","tag-department-of-materials-science-and-engineering","tag-sharon-gerecht","tag-department-of-chemical-and-biomolecular-engineering","tag-institute-for-nanobiotechnology","tag-denis-wirtz","tag-hai-quan-mao","tag-peter-searson","tag-translational-tissue-engineering-center","issue-winter-2017"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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