Current Courses

Entrepreneurial Experience

• Elute Inc. 10/01/2011 - present. Employees: 5.
  Comments: start-up company based on university IP from my lab involving reservable antibiotic-releasing bone graft biomaterials; located in Research Park, has won 2 Utah State TCIP awards with match required and successful seed funding from UpStart Ventures, completed Series A2 round for $4.5 million; FDA 510(k) approval for first graft product; FDA RFD granted device designation for drug-eluting product.

Professional Organizations

• AVS (Surface Science Society). 01/2000 - 03/01/2016. Position : Member.
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Society. 03/01/1990 - present. Position : Member.
• International Federation of Societies of Biomaterials. 01/01/2004 - present. Position : Fellow.
• American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. 01/01/2000 - present. Position : Member.
• American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers. 01/01/2000 - present. Position : Fellow.
• Controlled Release Society. 01/01/1994 - present. Position : Member.
• American Chemical Society. 01/01/1990 - present. Position : Member.
• Society for Biomaterials. 01/01/1990 - present. Position : Member.

Additional didactic teaching