Guy M. Genin
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
2023

Guy M. Genin studies mechanobiology, with a focus on interfaces and adhesion in nature, physiology, and engineering. His work advances surgical techniques, molecular detection, and therapies for tissue inflammation and fibrosis. Genin serves as the Harold and Kathleen Faught Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Washington University, with appointments in Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery. At Xi’an Jiaotong University, he serves as Thousand Talents Plan Professor of Life Sciences. Genin co-directs the NSF Science and Technology Center for Engineering Mechanobiology and serves on the U.S. Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group’s steering committee and the Society of Engineering Science’s Board of Directors. A fellow of ASME, AIMBE, and the U.S. National Academy of Inventors, Genin is chief engineer of Caeli Vascular, Inc., and CTO of Inflexion Vascular, LLC. Genin is the recipient of awards including a Research Career Award from the NIH; the Skalak Award from ASME; the Changjiang Scholar Award from the Chinese Ministry of Education; and the Eads Medal from the St. Louis Academy of Science. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Case Western Reserve University and master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard. He completed postdoctoral training at Cambridge and Brown.