Michael Detamore

Michael Detamore is the director of the C. Wayne McIlwraith Translational Medicine Institute and a professor of mechanical engineering at Colorado State University. He earned his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado and his Ph.D. in bioengineering from Rice University with Kyriacos Athanasiou.

Prior to moving to CSU, he served for 8 years as the founding director, professor, and Stephenson Chair #1 of the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, and spent 12 years at the University of Kansas as a professor in the Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the Coulter Foundation Translational Research Award, and was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at NUI Galway in Ireland in 2011. He is a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors, and a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and the Biomedical Engineering Society.

His primary research interest is regenerative medicine, including biomaterials and stem cells. Regenerative medicine efforts include spinal cord injury, but focus primarily on bone and cartilage regeneration, including the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), knee, cranium, and trachea, with a particular focus on translational regenerative medicine. He has published over 140 papers, and has 13 issued U.S. patents. He has also given over 90 invited lectures around the world, including in the United States, Italy, Switzerland, Scotland, Ireland, Greece, the Netherlands, Poland, India, the United Arab Emirates, and Japan. In addition to his research, he enjoys teaching and has won numerous teaching awards.