Barbara Boyan

Barbara D. Boyan, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Institute for Engineering and Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University and is professor of Biomedical Engineering where she holds the Alice T. and William H. Goodwin, Jr. Chair. Boyan also is professor emerita in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the College of Engineering. Dr. Boyan served as Dean of Engineering at VCU from 2013 to 2022. She was the founding Director of the FDA-sponsored Atlanta Pediatric Device Consortium and directed the Virginia branch when she moved to Virginia. Dr. Boyan is presently co-principal investigator of VCU’s NSF-sponsored Advance-IT grant, which promotes career development of women faculty in STEM related disciplines and of the NIH-sponsored “Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH)” award to VCU. She is a Fellow in the National Academy of Inventors, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Orthopaedic Research Society, American Institute of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, the International College of Fellows of Biomaterials Science and Engineering, and the European Academy of Science and Arts, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. She is a member of the Biologics Committee for the North American Spine Society; former chair of the FDA’s Orthopaedic Device Panel; vice-chair of the board of the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing; and chair of the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority Board. She has founded a number of biomedical technology companies and has served on the Boards of both public and private companies, as well as not-for-profit organizations. The author of more than 520 peer-reviewed papers, reviews, and book chapters, Dr. Boyan holds 24 issued U.S. patents as well as international patents.