Guy M. Genin

Guy M. Genin studies the mechanics of living interfaces: how tissues attach, how cells read the forces around them, and how that mechanics can be engineered into treatments. He is the Harold and Kathleen Faught Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, with appointments in Biomedical Engineering, Neurological Surgery, and Surgery. His work on the tendon-to-bone attachment established the modern understanding of how nature joins dissimilar materials and led to new surgical repair strategies; his work on cell-matrix mechanics showed that cells respond to the anisotropy and history of the stresses they carry, with consequences for fibrosis and wound healing; and his work on device-tissue mechanics underlies catheter technologies licensed to two companies he co-founded, Caeli Vascular (Chief Engineer) and Vascorra (CTO). Genin co-founded and co-directs the NSF Science and Technology Center for Engineering MechanoBiology, a $50M center, one of 14 NSF STCs ac