Biography

Candan Tamerler is Wesley G. Cramer Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering Program at the University of Kansas (KU), USA. She is the Director of Bio-mediated and Biomimetic Materials at the Institute for Bioengineering Research (IBER) and the Core-Director of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering in the Bioengineering Program. Prior to KU, Tamerler served as an assistant director of the Genetically-Engineered Materials Science & Engineering Center (GEMSEC), an NSF MRSEC, at the University of Washington. She was one of the core faculty members who established GEMSEC in 2005. Between 2002-2010 while concurrently holding an Affiliated Professor position in the MSE at the University of Washington, she also was a Professor (tenured) and the Chair of Molecular Biology and Genetics Department at the Istanbul Technical University (ITU). While at ITU, Tamerler founded and served as the Director of the Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, a multi-disciplinary initiative established in 2004 until she joined to Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Washington as a full time faculty in 2010. Combining the molecular biology to materials science, Dr. Tamerler’s research focuses on biology enabled nanotechnologies and the engineering of biomolecular systems for design, synthesis and biofabrication of materials in wide range of applications. By the integration of biological building blocks, she conducts studies that may allow harnessing the extraordinary diversity and protein functions to generate smart bio-hybrid materials to be utilized as functional coatings, sensing modalities and restorative and regenerative tissue engineering applications. With more than 150 SCI publications and several patents, her publications received >6000 citations (H-Index: 37). Tamerler is both Fellow of the Turkish Academy of Sciences and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).

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Research Interest

Candan Tamerler is Wesley G. Cramer Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering Program at the University of Kansas (KU), USA. She is the Director of Bio-mediated and Biomimetic Materials at the Institute for Bioengineering Research (IBER) and the Core-Director of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering in the Bioengineering Program. Prior to KU, Tamerler served as an assistant director of the Genetically-Engineered Materials Science & Engineering Center (GEMSEC), an NSF MRSEC, at the University of Washington. She was one of the core faculty members who established GEMSEC in 2005. Between 2002-2010 while concurrently holding an Affiliated Professor position in the MSE at the University of Washington, she also was a Professor (tenured) and the Chair of Molecular Biology and Genetics Department at the Istanbul Technical University (ITU). While at ITU, Tamerler founded and served as the Director of the Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, a multi-disciplinary initiative established in 2004 until she joined to Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Washington as a full time faculty in 2010. Combining the molecular biology to materials science, Dr. Tamerler’s research focuses on biology enabled nanotechnologies and the engineering of biomolecular systems for design, synthesis and biofabrication of materials in wide range of applications. By the integration of biological building blocks, she conducts studies that may allow harnessing the extraordinary diversity and protein functions to generate smart bio-hybrid materials to be utilized as functional coatings, sensing modalities and restorative and regenerative tissue engineering applications. With more than 150 SCI publications and several patents, her publications received >6000 citations (H-Index: 37). Tamerler is both Fellow of the Turkish Academy of Sciences and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).