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Rui Reis

University of Minho - 3B's Department of Polymer Engineering Braga, Portugal

Professor Rui L. Reis, PhD, DSc, Hon. Causa MD, Hon Causa PhD, FBSE, FTERM, member of NAE, member of EurAcS, FAIMBE, FEAMBES, is a Full Professor of Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine, Biomaterials and Stem Cells at University of Minho (UMinho), Portugal. He is the Founding Director of the 3B’s Research Group and the Dean/President of the I3Bs – Institute for Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, as well as the Director of the ICVS/3B´s Associate Laboratory, all based at UMinho. He is also the CEO of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. He has been (2015-2018) the Global President of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) and was the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (2007-2021), was an Associate Editor of PNAS-NEXUS (2022-2024), and is presently an Associated Editor of Bioactive Materials (2024-…), being also in the Editorial Board of several other relevant journals.
He is a recognized World expert in the TERM and biomaterials fields, that has edited several books and has more than 2000 published works listed on ISI Web of Knowledge with an h index of 130 (1830 works and h=141 in Scopus and 2955 and h=166 in Google Scholar), being also an inventor of around 130 patents. He has more than 1395 publications with more than 10 citations each (i10). Based on those, he co-founded several companies that raised important private investments. According to Google Scholar his work has been cited more than 128500 times. He is listed in the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2022, 2023 and 2024 lists from Clarivate (responsible for the ISI Web of Science).
He has been awarded many important international prizes, including among several others different innovation awards, the Jean Leray, George Winter and Klaas de Groot Awards (ESB), the Clemson Award for contributions to the literature Award (SFB), the TERMIS-EU contributions to the literature Award and the TERMIS-EU Career Achievement Award, the UNESCO- International Life Sciences Award, the IET A. F. Harvey Engineering Research Prize and the Chandra Sharma Award (India Society for Biomaterials). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (USA), European Academy of Sciences (EurAcS), Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE) and Fellow of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (FTERM). He was the chair of the FTERM College of Fellows (2019-2021) and is presently (since 2020) the Chair of the Steering Committee of the International College of Fellows of FBSE. He was awarded 2 honouris causa degrees. He is/has been the PI of projects with a budget totalizing more than 150 MEuros of which around 75 MEuros are U. Minho funding.