John A. Frangos, PhD  
President & CEO/Scientific Director
La Jolla Bioengineering Institute
La Jolla, California 

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EDUCATION

Rice University, Houston, TX

Ph.D.

1986

Chemical Engineering

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

M.S.

1982

Chemical Engineering

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

B.E.S.

1981

Chemical Engineering

 

EXPERIENCE 

2002 - Present  Founder, Principal Scientist, President & CEO, 
La Jolla Bioengineering Institute, La Jolla, CA.
1996 - 2002 Professor, Department of Bioengineering, 
University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA.
1994 - 1996  Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, 
University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA.
1992 - 1994   Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, 
Penn State University, State College, PA.
1986 - 1992   Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, 
Penn State University, State College, PA.

 

HONORS AND MEMBERSHIPS 

2002 - 2004  Member, Surgery and Bioengineering Study Section, NIH
1999 Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
1997 - 1998 Editorial Board, American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology
1998 - Present Editorial Board, General Pharmacology
1998 - 2001 American Heart Association Study Committee on Vascular Wall Biology I
1998 - Present  External Advisory Board, Program on Mechanotransduction in Bone, Indiana Univ
1997 - 2000 External Advisory Board, NSCORT on Space Cell Biology, Rice University
1997 - 2000 Board of Directors, Biomedical Engineering Society
1997  Program Chair, Annual meeting of Biomedical Engineering Society, San Diego
1997  Board of Scientific Counselors, Nat. Inst. on Deafness & Other Communication Disorders
1993 Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
1993 - 1996  Councilor, North American Society of Biorheology
1990 - 1995 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award
1991 Outstanding Research Award, College of Engineering, Penn State University

 

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