Posted June 4, 2013
The RPI Board of Trustees has approved Ryan Gilbert's promotion to Associate Professor with tenure.
Ryan received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. He joined Michigan Technological University as an Assistant Professor in 2005 and moved to Rensselaer in 2010.
Ryan specializes in developing translational biomaterials to aid in spinal cord repair. His laboratory is developing biomaterials to guide axonal and cellular migration through an injury site, as well as, locally deliver therapeutics.