Dr. Ryan Bonvillain is a biotechnology industry scientist and director. He is an expert in Pulmonary Biology and Tissue Engineering. He earned his PhD in Human and Molecular Genetics focused in pulmonary disease from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans in 2010 and he began his career in tissue engineering working as a post-doctoral fellow in the Center for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine at the Tulane School of Medicine and in conjunction with the Tulane National Primate Research Center. He is currently the Director of Tissue Engineering Research in the Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at United Therapeutics Corporation in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
Dr. Bonvillain has 22 years of research experience covering a broad range of interests in biological sciences including comparative endocrinology to understand glucose homeostasis and molt-interfering xenobiotics in crustaceans, viral gene therapy for cystic fibrosis, elucidating the role of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) in innate host defense, characterizing cystic fibrosis infection pathology as a spectrum of microbial sensitivity to biological oxidants, treatment of pulmonary Pseudomonas and Streptococcal pneumonias with mesenchymal stromal cells, harvesting and characterizing lung-resident mesenchymal stromal cells in Rhesus macaque, development of large-animal lung decellularization and re-cellularization (humanization) techniques for clinical organ replacement.
In his spare time, Ryan enjoys traveling with his wife, Cortney, and their two children (Andy, 11, and Jane, 8). He also enjoys boating, fishing, riding his motorcycle, woodworking, and photography.
Please join us online at 13:00 on 27th November for Ryan’s fascinating seminar about general organ engineering efforts at United Therapeutics with a focus on the Regenerative Medicine program using decellularized lung scaffolds recellularized with primary human pulmonary cells.