George Christ

Dr. George Christ is a Professor in the Depts. of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Virginia, and Director of the Center for Advanced Biomanufacturing.

George is the Past Chairman of the Division of Systems and Integrative Pharmacology of the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET), and Past President of the North Carolina Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (NCTERM) group. He was inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and is a member of the Regenerative Rehabilitation Consortium Leadership Council as well as serving on the Leadership Advisory Council for ARMI/BioFabUSA. George has chaired working groups for both the NIH and the WHO and is the inventor of 15 issued US Patents, with many more pending (national and international).

With broad experience in vascular, urogenital and musculoskeletal physiology, pharmacology and tissue engineering, George has been a driving scientific force behind the preclinical studies and IND approvals supporting three Phase 1 clinical trial for gene therapy for benign human smooth muscle disorders. George is also spearheading several translational research programs to develop novel regenerative medicine treatments (biologics and biomaterials) with applications for wounded warriors and civilians, in particular, polytraumatic volumetric muscle loss injuries.

George holds a PhD in Pharmacology from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC