More than 20 years ago, while looking for ways to make substitute blood vessels, Stephen Badylak and his colleagues discovered the most unlikely of wound healers—small intestine material from pigs. What he calls “Mother Nature's scaffold for wound healing," has since proven valuable in a wide variety of healing issues—from minimizing scarring to healing torn tendons. Stephen holds more than 200 patents worldwide and has authored more than 180 scientific publications. He is currently president elect of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society and has chaired several study sections for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the Bioengineering, Technology, and Surgical Sciences Study Section. Stephen has received numerous awards, including the Sigma Xi Scientific Society 2002 Research Award, the Clemson Award (Society for Biomaterials) in 2005, the Carnegie Science Center Award for Excellence in 2005 and 2008 and the Chancellors Distinguished Research Award in 2008.

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