Campus Insights: Professor Brendan Harley, Chemical and Biomolecular Enginneering

On Sept. 10, 2014, eight faculty members from the Urbana-Champaign campus gave brief presentations to the University of Illinois Board of Trustees on their research and outreach activities. The presentations address health and wellness research from a broad spectrum of academic disciplines, underscore the broad excellence of the campus, and give a keen insights into the factors that attract outstanding faculty to Illinois, and why they choose to stay. Harley co-founded UK-based Orthomimetics, Ltd. (now TiGenix, Ltd.), currently performing Phase I clinical trials on a material to repair osteochondral defects in the knee. He co-authored the book ‘Cellular Materials in Nature and Medicine.’