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Atlanta, GA | Posted: March 14, 2016
CONTACT:
Walter Rich
Communications Manager
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Summary Sentence:
Biomedical Engineers Temenoff and Wang Promoted to Full Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory.
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Johnna Temenoff and May Wang Promoted to Full ProfessorAbout Johnna Temenoff, Ph.D.
Temenoff completed her Ph.D. in 2003 from Rice University, after graduating from Case Western Reserve University in 1998 with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and a B.A. in French. Her thesis work, completed under the guidance of Dr. A. G. Mikos, centered on development of a novel injectable poly(ethylene glycol)-based hydrogel material for bone and cartilage tissue engineering. Johnna chose to remain at Rice 2003-2005 to co-author an undergraduate biomaterials textbook with Dr. Mikos. The result, Biomaterials: The Intersection of Biology and Materials Science, published in 2008 by Pearson-Prentice Hall, has been adopted by over 40 universities in the U.S. and has been published in two international editions. The book was awarded the Meriam-Wiley Award for Best New Engineering Textbook by the American Society for Engineering Education in 2010. In 2005, In 2014, she was named co-director of the statewide Regenerative Engineering and Medicine Center (REM), which is a joint partnership between investigators at Georgia Tech, Emory University, and the University of Georgia. The goal of her laboratory is to design polymeric biomaterials for specific orthopaedic applications, including regeneration of tendon/ligament, cartilage and bone.
About May Wang, Ph.D.
Wang received the Distinguished Cancer Scholar Award from Georgia Cancer Coalition in 2004, an Outstanding Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentor Award from Georgia Tech in 2005, and an Outstanding Service Award from IEEE BIBE in 2007. Wang received her Ph.D. (EE), multidisciplinary MS degrees (EE, Applied Math, and CS) from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a BEng from Tsinghua University in China. In addition, Wang has several years of industrial R&D experience in the former AT&T Bell Labs, Intel Architecture Labs, Hughes Research Labs, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, and Agere Systems. Her primary research interest is in biomedical and health informatics for systems medicine, with the goal to accelerate and enable the discovery, development, and translation in modern biology, medicine, and healthcare.
