Joachim Kohn, Ph.D., FBSE
Director, New Jersey Center for Biomaterials
Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dr. Kohn is a research entrepreneur, a multi-disciplinary translational scientist and a national leader in the development of regenerative medicine. In 1997, he founded the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials, a collaborative network spanning 25 institutions and 40 laboratories. He has 58 issued U.S. Patents on novel biomaterials and seven companies have licensed his technologies. He has raised about $100 million in research funding at Rutgers and helped four licensees to raise nearly $200 million in private capital. In 2014, Dr. Kohn was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors.
