Affiliation: University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Stephanie Willerth, PhD, is a Full Professor in Biomedical Engineering and holds a Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Victoria where she has dual appointments in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Division of Medical Sciences. She serves as the Acting Director of the Centre for Biomedical Research and the Biomedical Engineering undergraduate program at the University of Victoria. She has also served as the President of the Canadian Biomaterials Society. She runs an active research group whose focus is developing innovative methods of engineering tissues, including the use of 3D printing to generate neural tissues using stem cells for disease modeling and drug screening applications. Her research group has published 58 peer reviewed journal articles and 10 book chapters since its formation in 2010. Dr. Willerth has given over 60 invited talks, including presenting at the Eindhoven University of Technology, University of Washington, the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, the University of California-Los Angeles, and at Purdue University as well as at major conferences, such as the 3rd Annual Mid-Atlantic Biomanufacturing Symposium and the 2018 Till and McCulloch meeting.