Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida. He received his BS Chemical Engineering from the University of South Florida, his PhD Bioengineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and joined the faculty at the University of Florida in 2005. He is currently funded by the NIH (R01DK091658, R01DK098589) and past funding is also gratefully acknowledged from NIH, the National Science Foundation, the Arthritis Foundation, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He serves on editorial boards for the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research-Part A, and the Journal of Materials Chemistry B, and is a standing member on the NIH Biomaterials and Biointerfaces Study Section as well as an active reviewer for NSF. He is a recipient of the 2015 University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship Award.