Contact

Mauro.Ferrari@uth.tmc.edu
Tel: 713-500-2444
Fax: 713-500-2462

Executive Assistant
Ms. Fredi Fegans
Tel: 713-500-2470
Fax: 713-500-2462
fredi.fegans@uth.tmc.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1989.
• Dottore, Mathematics, Universita’ di Padova, Italy, 1985.
• Medical Student, Ohio State University, 2002-2004.
• Biographical Sketch

Summary:

Professor Mauro Ferrari is the Director of the Research Center for NanoMedicine in The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Ferrari is a Professor of Experimental Therapeutics at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and a Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University. He is also the President of Alliance for NanoHealth and the Chair of Biomedical Engineering at UT-Health Science Center at Houston.

Dr. Ferrari is an internationally recognized expert in the development, refinement and application of biomedical nanotechnology. He was trained in mathematics, engineering and medicine. He has published more than 160 peer-reviewed articles. He received National Young Investigator Award of National Science Foundation from 1993 to1998 and the Wallace H. Coulter Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 1999. From 2003 to 2005, he served as Special Expert on Nanotechnology and Eminent Scholar at The National Cancer Institute. Dr. Ferrari has been the Editor-in-Chief for “Biomedical Microdevices: BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology” since 1997.

Dr. Ferrari is also an expert in intellectual property and technology commercialization. From 2002 to 2006, he served as the Associate Vice President for Health Science Technology and Commercialization at the Ohio State University. He has more than 20 awarded U.S. and international patents and was co-founder of several Biotech start-up companies. Most recently, he co-founded a start-up company which licensed his technologies:Leonardo Biosystems, Inc.