• Professor, Biomedical Engineering
  • Tim and Amy Leach Professor, Biomedical Engineering
  • Presidential Impact Fellow
  • Affiliated Faculty, Materials Science & Engineering
Akhilesh Gaharwar

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University – 2011

Research Interests

    • Biomaterials
    • Regenerative medicine
    • Cancer bioengineering
    • Bioprinting
    • Drug delivery
    • Nanoparticles
    • Wound healing
    • Hemostasis
    • Combining materials science, stem cell biology, additive biomanufacturing and high-throughput genomics principles

Awards & Honors

  • Director's New Innovator Award (DP2), National Institutes of Health
  • Young Investigators Forum in American Chemical Society (ACS) Applied Materials & Interfaces – 2019
  • ChemComm Emerging Investigator, Royal Society of Chemistry – 2019
  • Research Impact Award, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) – 2019
  • Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Young Faculty Award, Texas A&M University – 2019
  • Merit Award, Orthopedic Special Interest Group, Society For Biomaterials – 2013
  • Editorial Board Member, "Scientific Reports—Nature" – 2013