External Advisory Board

Mary Bouxsein

Member,  External Advisory Board

Mary Bouxsein is Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Co-Director of the Center for Musculoskeletal Research at Harvard, and faculty member in the combined Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology MD-PhD Program. Dr. Bouxsein received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and completed postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School.

Dennis Discher

Member,  External Advisory Board

Professor Discher is the Robert D. Bent Professor and Director of Physical Sciences Oncology Center/Project @ Penn at University of Pennsylvania. Discher is an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the US National Academy of Medicine, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he serves on Editorial Boards of Science, Molecular Biology of the Cell, and PNAS Nexus, among other journals.

C. Ross Ethier

Member, External Advisory Board

Professor C. Ross Ethier is the Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr. and Mary Duckworth Gellerstedt Chair in Bioengineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University School of Medicine, as well as a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1986. Prof. Ethier is the Founding Chair of the Bioengineering Society (UK). He is the recipient of the ASME Lissner medal, has served on several bodies and is elected as a Fellow from a number of organizations.

Guy Genin

Member, External Advisory Board

Professor Genin is the Harold and Kathleen Faught Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis. Genin is on the SES Board of Directors, and is Secretary of the ASME Bioengineering Division. A fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, Genin is chief engineer of Caeli Vascular, and CTO of Vascorra, LLC. He is recipient of the ASME Skalak award for work on mechanobiology and the ASME Woo Medal for translational impact in mechanobiology. Genin earned masters and doctoral degrees from Harvard, and completed postdoctoral training at Cambridge and Brown. 

Jay Humphrey

Member, External Advisory Board

Professor Jay Humphrey is the John C. Malone Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Yale University, where his research and teaching focuses on vascular mechanics and mechanobiology. He received a Ph.D. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from The Georgia Institute of Technology and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Medicine – Cardiovascular at the Johns Hopkins University.