THOMAS BOLAND is a Professor in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso. He also serves as the director of UTEP's Biomedical Engineering Program. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Ecole Nationale Sup‚rieure d'Ing‚nieurs de Genie Chimique in Toulouse, France in 1990, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA in 1995. In 1994, he was a finalist for the Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award. Following his Ph.D., he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Materials Science at the Pennsylvania State University from 1995-1997, and at the Naval Research Laboratory from 1997-1999. In 1999, he joined Clemson University as Assistant Professor, where he received tenure in 2005. Prior to heading up the UTEP BME program, Thomas was the Director of a NSF/NIH funded Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institute, whose primary mission is to introduce senior undergraduate and junior graduate students with science and engineering backgrounds to the interdisciplinary research projects in the bioengineering and bioinformatics areas. Thomas' research interests are applying engineering principles to automate, predict and build three dimensional structures with that show biological function. He has received numerous awards and was featured on CNN and the Discovery Channel for his ground breaking innovations using inkjet printers to assemble cells and biomaterials into viable and functioning structures. He is the author of more than 45 publications, including 3 invited reviews and chapters, and he has delivered more than 25 invited presentations. He is a member of the AVS, MRS, the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) and the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS).

• Hometown Hero - Oscar Arrieta Agency, Allstate (01/29/2022)
• Fellow - National Academy of Inventors (12/09/2021)
• Fellow - Biomedical Engineering Society (10/01/2018-10/31/2018)
• Fellow - American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (09/01/2010-09/30/2010)

• Materials Science/Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University (1998)
• Ph D in Chemical Engineering, University of Washington (1995)
• BS in Chemical Engineering, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Génie Chimique (1990)

• Combinatorial Strategy Using Thermal Inkjet Bioprinting, Chemotherapy, and Radiation on Human Breast Cancer Cells; an In-Vitro Cell Viability Assessment Materials (Basel) 14 24 (2021), Aleli Campbell, Denisse A. Gutierrez , Colin Knight , Charlotte Vines, Rosalinda Heydarian, Alexander Philipovskiy, Armando Varela-Ramirez, Thomas Boland.
• Thermal Bioprinting Causes Ample Alterations of Expression of LUCAT1, IL6, CCL26, and NRN1L Genes and Massive Phosphorylation of Critical Oncogenic Drug Resistance Pathways in Breast Cancer Cells. Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology 8 (2020), Aaron S. Campbell, Jonathon E. Mohl, D A. Gutierrez, Armando Varela, Thomas Boland.
• Thermal inkjet printed endothelial cells cause microvasculature formation in host tissues via heat shock protein induced vgef release Transactions of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Biomaterials and the Annual International Biomaterials Symposium (2019), Thomas Boland.
• Synthesis and characterization of a photocleavable collagen-like peptide Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 16 6 (2018), Alfredo Ornelas Sanchez, K N. Williams, K A. Hatch, A Paez, A C. Aguilar, C C. Ellis, N Tasnim, S Ray, C W. Dirk, Thomas Boland, B Joddar, C Q. Li, Katja Michael.
• Biocompatible, Large-format, Inkjet Printed Heterostructure MoS2-graphene Photodetectors on Conformable Substrates npj 2D Materials and Applications 1 1 (2017), R Hossain, I Deaguero, Thomas Boland, A Kaul.
• Biofabrication: A Guide to Technology and Terminology Trends Biotechnol 36 4 (2017), L Moroni, Thomas Boland, J A. Burdick, C DeMaria, B Derby, G Forgacs, J Groll, J Malda, V A. Mironov, C Mota, M Nakamura, W Shu, S Takeuchi, T B. Woodfield, T Xu, J J. Yoo, G Vozzi.
• Molecular Imprinted Silica with West Nile Antibody Templates show Specific and Selective Binding in Immunoassays Journal of Biotechnology & Biomaterials 7 (2017), j R. Rincon, F Diaz Santillan, P Palermo Infante, D Watts, Thomas Boland.
• Nipple and breast construction: In vitro and in vivo assessment Engineering 3D Tissue Test Systems (2017), Thomas Boland.

• Bioprinted Breast Cancer Models: New Molecular Insights and Potential Drug Targets (2020), Thomas Boland, Jonathon E. Mohl, Armando Varela.
• Advances in 3D breast tissue fabrication for drug development and tissue reconstruction (2020), Thomas Boland, .
• Microscopic Characterization of Inkjet Printed Fibroblasts (2020), Brittany Rodriguez, Thomas Boland.
• Bioprinted Aortic Construct for Pediatric Congenital Defect Repair (2020), Beu Oropeza, Thomas Boland.
• Assessment Of Cell Survival And Stability Of A Multi-layered Additive Manufactured Aortic Construct (2019), Beu P. Oropeza, Thomas Boland.
• Thermal Inkjet Printing Elicits Activation of the NF-B Pathway in Primary and Cancer Cells (2019), Thomas Boland, .
• Assessment of Cell Survival and Stability of a Multi-layered Additive Manufactured Aortic Construct (2019), Thomas Boland, .
• Thermal inkjet bioprinting MCF7 breast cancer cells induces phosphorylation of 19 analytes (2019), Aleli Cambell, Thomas Boland.
• The Use of Thermal Inkjet Printed Cell Activation for Tissue Engineering and Cancer Models (2019), Thomas Boland, .
• 3D Bioprinted Breast Cancer Cells: An in vivo Comparison Study (2019), Thomas Boland.
• Assessment of Cell Survival and Stability of a Multi-layered Additive Manufactured Aortic Construct (2019), Beu P. Oropeza, Thomas Boland.
• Characterization of Exosomes from Bio-printed vs Manually Seeded MCF-7 and PC12 cells (2019), Thomas Boland.
• Development of COG133 Surface Modified Nanoparticles as a Treatment Modality for Neurological Diseases in Drosophila Melanogaster (2019), Michael Furth, Kyung-An Han, Thomas Boland, .
• Microsystem For Nicotine Delivery (2019), Thomas Boland.
• Molecular Imprinting of Nanoparticles for Point of Care Influenza Assay (2019), Thomas Boland.
• Thermal Inkjet Bioprinting Triggers the Activation of the VEGF Pathway in Human Microvascular Endothelial Cells In Vitro (2019), Thomas Boland.
• Activation of Inkjet Printed Cells Enhances Microvasculature Formation in Host Tissues (2019), Thomas Boland.
• Activation of Inkjet Printed Cells Enhances Microvasculature Formation in Host Tissues (2019), Thomas Boland.
• 2D and 3D thermally bioprinted human MCF-7 breast cancer cells: A promising model for drug discovery (2019), Thomas Boland.
• Thermal Inkjet Bioprinting Triggers the Activation of the VEGF Pathway in Human Microvascular Endothelial Cells In Vitro (2019), Thomas Boland.
• Thermal Inkjet Printed Endothelial Cells Cause Microvasculature Formation in Host Tissues via Heat Shock Protein Induced VGEF Release (2019), Thomas Boland.
• Thermal Inkjet Bioprinting Triggers the Activation of the VEGF Pathway in Human Microvascular Endothelial Cells In Vitro (2019), Thomas Boland.
• Activation of Inkjet Printed Cells Enhances Microvasculature Formation in Host Tissues (2019), Thomas Boland.
• Thermal Inkjet Printing of Cells: Activation of Angiogenic Pathways (2018), Thomas Boland.
• Activation of Inkjet Printed Cells Enhances Microvasculature Formation in Host Tissues (2018), Thomas Boland.
• Ink Jet Printing of Cells: Principles and Applications (2018), Thomas Boland.
• Navigating ethics in a STEM training grant (2018), Thomas Boland.
• Data problems: A cautionary tale about curve fitting in STEM (2018), Thomas Boland.
• Biocompatibility of Printed MoS2-graphene Photodetectors on PET Substrates (2018), Thomas Boland.
• Ink Jet Printing of Cells: Principles and Applications (2017), Thomas Boland.
• The Viability of Lyophilized HeLa Cells (2017), Thomas Boland.
• Integration of Inkjet Printed Microvasculature into Host Tissues (2017), Thomas Boland.
• Gelatin Nanoparticle Loading of Anti-Parasitic Compound for Treatment of Leishmaniasis (2017), Thomas Boland.
• Printed pattern to create a 3-D tumor formation to monitor cancerous cell migration (2017), Thomas Boland.
• Drosophila Melanogaster As A Model For The Delivery Of Protein Based Nanoparticles Through The Blood-Brain Barrier (2017), Thomas Boland.
• The Effects Of Cryopreservation And Lyophilization On The Viability Of Spray-On-Cells (2017), Thomas Boland.
• Selective binding of BSA in a silica matrix in the presence of carbon black (2017), Thomas Boland.
• Assessment Of Angiogenesis And Cell Survival Of A Bio-Printed Implant In An Animal Model, (2017), Thomas Boland.

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