Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 102; Google Scholar) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000). He has served as a professor at Purdue (2000-2005), Brown (2005-2012), and Northeastern (2012-2021) Universities and has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health. He has directed numerous international centers in biomaterials and has graduated over 200 students with over 750 peer-reviewed publications. Prof. Webster is a fellow of over 8 academic societies and is a SCOPUS highly cited researcher (top 1% citations for materials science and mixed fields) as well as a Public Library of Science (PLoS) World Top 2% Scientist by Citations in all fields.