Dr. Laura Suggs earned her Ph.D. in chemical engineering with a concentration in biomaterials and tissue engineering from Rice University in 1998. She joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 2004. In 2002, she received the National Science Foundation’s Advance Fellowship for outstanding female faculty.
Research Interests:
Cardiovascular tissue engineering
Extracellular matrix analogs (polymers that mimic structural proteins)
Adult progenitor cells (adult stem cells derived from bone marrow)
