Professor Guillermo Ameer, a native of Panama City, Panama, received his bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and his doctor of science degree in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty of the Biomedical Engineering Department at Northwestern University in 2001 and is currently a professor of Biomedical Engineering. Moreover, he has been appointed professor in the Department of Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine.

Dr. Ameer's research interests include biomaterials, vascular and orthopaedic tissue engineering, controlled drug and gene delivery, stem cell engineering and bio/nanotechnology for improved therapeutics and diagnostics. He has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal publications and conference abstracts, several book chapters, and multiple patents issued and pending (>25).  Moreover, he is (Co-)Founder of 3 companies: ProSorp Biotech, VesselTek Biomedical and Citrics Biomedical. 

He has served on several scientific review committees for funding research at the state and federal levels and was one of 100 invitees by the National Academy of Engineering to attend the 10th annual Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (2004). Dr. Ameer served as a permanent member of the Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering study section of the National Institutes of Health.

To accomplish his research goals, Dr. Ameer has assembled a team of collaborators, which include: Dr. William Pearce, Chief of Vascular Surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Dr. Melina Kibbe, Associate Professor and vascular surgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Dr. Jason Koh, Associate Professor and orthopaedic surgeon at Northshore Hospital; Dr. Stuart Sprague, Director of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Northshore Hospital; Prof. Vadim Backman, Biomedical Engineering Department at Northwestern University; Prof. Timothy Carroll, Biomedical Engineering Department at Northwestern University; Prof. Lonnie Shea, Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at Northwestern Unversity; Prof. Igal Szleifer, Biomedical Engineering Department at Northwestern University and Prof. Milan Mrksich, Biomedical Engineering Department at Northwesternn University.

Selected Awards/Honors:

• NIH Challenge Grant, "A Revolutionary Therapy for Atherosclerosis: Liquid Cast Arterial Stents" (2009)
• Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
• Northwestern University Drew Senyei, MD Translational Research Award (2006)
• American Heart Association Established Investigator Award (2006)
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award: Biodegradable elastomeric composite scaffolds for ligament reconstruction (2006)
• Illinois Institute of Regenerative Medicine: Stem cell-based vascular tissue engineering Award (2006)
• Wallace H. Coulter Early Career Translational Research Award (2005)
• Invitee to the National Academy of Engineering's 10th Annual Frontiers in Engineering Symposium (2004)
• Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award (2004-2007)
• American Immigration Law Foundation Immigrant Achievement Award (2004)
• Elected to Technology Review Magazine's top 100 Young Innovators in the world (2003)
• American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant (2002)
• The National Kidney Foundation's Victor M. G. Chaltiel Young Investigator Award (2002)

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