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).

• Other in 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)

• Thermal inkjet bioprinting triggers the activation of the VEGF pathway in human microvascular endothelial cells in vitro. Biofabrication 11 4 (2019), L H. Solis, Y Ayala, S Portillo, A Varela-Ramirez, Renato Aguilera, 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.
• BUILDing SCHOLARS:enhancing diversity among U.S. biomedical researchers in the Southwest BioMed Central BMC Proceedings 11 (Suppl12) (2017), Timothy Collins, Stephen B. Aley, Thomas Boland, Guadalupe Corral, Marc B. Cox, Lourdes Echegoyen, Sara Grineski, Osvaldo F. Morera, Homayo Nazeran-Esfahani.

• BUILDing SCHOLARS: Combining Asset Bundles with High Impact Practices (2018), Lourdes Echegoyen, Miriam J. Alvarez, Stephen B. Aley, Thomas Boland, Timothy Collins, Guadalupe Corral, Marc B. Cox, Sara Grineski, Lizely Madrigal-Gonzalez, Osvaldo F. Morera, Sandra L. Oviedo, Amy E. Wagler.
• Finding the best match: Managing a multi-institutional mentoring program using an online mentoring interface (2017), Volume Bethesda, MD, Sara Grineski, Amy E. Wagler, Xiaodan Morales, Lourdes Echegoyen, Timothy Collins, Osvaldo F. Morera, Thomas Boland, Stephen B. Aley, Marc B. Cox, Guadalupe Corral.
• Finding the best match: Managing a multi-institutional mentoring program using an online mentoring interface (2017), Volume Bethesda, MD, Sara Grineski, Amy E. Wagler, Xiaodan Morales, Lourdes Echegoyen, Timothy Collins, Osvaldo F. Morera, Thomas Boland, Stephen B. Aley, Marc B. Cox, Guadalupe Corral.
• Gelatin Nanoparticle Encapsulation and delivery of Anti‐Parasitic Compounds for Treatment of Chagas Disease (2015), Volume El Paso, TX., Carlos Serna, Alfredo Ornelas, Eva Iniguez, Katja Michael, Rosa A. Maldonado-Medina, Thomas Boland.
• SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL ANTI-LEISHMANIA COMPOUNDS Second Border Biomedical Research Center Symposium on Health Disparities: From Molecules to Disease.September 27 - 29, 2015; El Paso, TX. Gelatin Nanoparticle Encapsulation and delivery of Anti‐Parasitic Compounds for Treatment of Chagas Disease Serna, C., Ornelas, A., Iniguez, E., Michael, K., Maldonado, R., Boland, T. Second Border Biomedical Research Center Symposium on Health Disparities: From Molecules to Disease. September 27 - 29, 2015; El Paso, TX. (2015), Volume El Paso, TX., Alfredo ORNELAS, Eva A. Iniguez, Julio Rincon, Carlos Serna, Thomas Boland, Rosa A. Maldonado-Medina, Katja Michael.

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