Robert Brown Early Career Investigator award for Miguel Castilho
Last week, Dr. Miguel Castilho received the Robert Brown Early Career Investigator award at the world congress of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society, Inc. (TERMIS).
About TERMIS
Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) is the most prominent organisation in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine globally. Among its activities, TERMIS promotes education, research, innovation, clinical translation, and social responsibility within the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. TERMIS provides an important international forum for the informed discussion and debate of achievements and challenges of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine therapies.
The Robert Brown Early Career Principal Investigator Award recognizes an individual, who has demonstrated outstanding achievements in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine research, during the early stages of their career with clear evidence of a growing profile.
Candidates for the TERMIS-EU Early Career Principal Investigator Award must have been awarded their first PhD (or equivalent doctoral degree) more than 2 and less than 10 years prior to the deadline of the call. (source TERMIS)
Castilho’s work
The award committee valued his pioneering translational work spanning various tissues, along with his interdisciplinary background in mechanical and biomedical engineering and strong (inter)national mobility. Examples of his pioneering work include technology to create vascularized cardiac tissue constructs and biomaterial structures for the personalized treatment of bone marrow diseases and muscle-wasting diseases.
More about Miguel Castilho’s research can be found here.